1
as in criteria
something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared
that last dining experience was not quite up to par
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as in normals
what is typical of a group, class, or series
a pulse of 70 is par for people of that age group
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Recent Examples of pars
Adler finished at 14 over and recorded five pars during his round, while Simon ended his day at 18 over with two pars on his back nine.
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Matt Wagner, Daily News, 29 May 2026
But O’Keefe got pars on 15 and 16, then birdied 17 and 18 to leave no doubt.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2026
O'Keefe, the low amateur at The Chevron Championship last month in the first LPGA major of the year, made only two pars along the back nine at La Costa Resort.
—ABC News, 25 May 2026
Two birdies on Sunday, pars on both Par 5s, and a bogey on a 299-yard Par 4.
—Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
But his round flattened out with seven straight pars on the back before dropping another stroke at the 17th.
—CBS News, 18 May 2026
Smalley continued to rattle off the pars and nurse his narrow lead in search of an unlikely first PGA Tour win before disaster struck on the sixth hole.
—Kevin Dotson, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
Eagles are worth 5 points, birdies are worth 2 points and pars are worth 0.
—Stan Awtrey, AJC.com, 26 Apr. 2026
Matt Wagner, Daily News, 29 May 2026
But O’Keefe got pars on 15 and 16, then birdied 17 and 18 to leave no doubt.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2026
O'Keefe, the low amateur at The Chevron Championship last month in the first LPGA major of the year, made only two pars along the back nine at La Costa Resort.
—ABC News, 25 May 2026
Two birdies on Sunday, pars on both Par 5s, and a bogey on a 299-yard Par 4.
—Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
But his round flattened out with seven straight pars on the back before dropping another stroke at the 17th.
—CBS News, 18 May 2026
Smalley continued to rattle off the pars and nurse his narrow lead in search of an unlikely first PGA Tour win before disaster struck on the sixth hole.
—Kevin Dotson, CNN Money, 17 May 2026
Eagles are worth 5 points, birdies are worth 2 points and pars are worth 0.
—Stan Awtrey, AJC.com, 26 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pars
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An audit of the hospital system with the steepest rise in this code found that fewer than 20% of the cases actually met the clinical criteria for a diagnosis.—
Whizy Kim,
Fortune,
12 June 2026
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Under those criteria, only Donalds would qualify.—
Romy Ellenbogen Herald,
Miami Herald,
12 June 2026
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Monday peaks close to seasonal normals in the 50s.—
Gregory Padgett,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2026
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Once this storm heads east by Thursday afternoon, cooler and drier weather will filter in with temperatures closer to our March normals of 50 degrees and 71 degrees.—
Mary Wasson,
Austin American Statesman,
8 Mar. 2026
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Among other changes, the law requires health officials to inspect the Aurora facility at least every three months to ensure the detention center abides by safety standards related to food and water quality, confinement conditions and medical services.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
9 June 2026
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The legislation clarifies the definition of data centers and allows the state Department of Environmental Quality to set the standards for data centers’ water usage, NC Newsline reported.—
Mary Ramsey
Updated June 8,
Charlotte Observer,
9 June 2026
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In recent years, drag has been positioned as a cultural lightning rod as part of a right-wing political effort to paint drag artists as depraved actors out to pervert gender norms, especially for children.—
David Mack,
CNN Money,
10 June 2026
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The models also persisted in their flagrant violation of academic norms.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
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Sotiroff agrees that bitcoin is difficult to value using traditional financial metrics.—
Mike Winters,
CNBC,
12 June 2026
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One of the most revealing metrics is workflow interruption frequency, or how often employees must switch tools, reenter data or manually bridge disconnected systems.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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The same recovery has not emerged for 13-year-olds, whose average scores in math and reading remain below pre-pandemic averages.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 June 2026
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However, the percentage of Fort Worth ISD students scoring at grade level or above still lags behind statewide averages in all subjects.—
Lina Ruiz,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 June 2026
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Ohio pays nursing homes a daily rate for Medicaid residents and provides additional payments to facilities that meet certain quality benchmarks.—
Brittany Miller,
FOXNews.com,
11 June 2026
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How the stock trades in its first weeks will ripple across private markets, impacting valuation benchmarks for Anthropic and OpenAI, rearranging Silicon Valley’s implicit venture-fund hierarchies, and determining how much mainstream capital other space-tech companies can attract in SpaceX’s wake.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
11 June 2026
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“Pars.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pars. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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