Thesaurus results for RUBRICS

rubrics

noun

plural of rubric

as in titles

a word or series of words often in larger letters placed at the beginning of a passage or at the top of a page in order to introduce or categorize the rubrics at the beginning of the chapters are intended to be humorous

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as in rules

an inherited or established way of thinking, feeling, or doing the rubric, popular among jewelers anyway, that a man should spend a month's salary on his fiancée's engagement ring

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as in categories

one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic all of these books with their conspiracy theories fall under the rubric of speculative fiction

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Recent Examples of rubrics Across the hall, the experts at PCLabs are painstakingly testing them, using clear and transparent rubrics to rate them on a five-point scale. —

K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 10 Apr. 2026 University officials said students in classes taught by striking professors should adhere to their class rubrics and check their emails for updates. —

Jack O'Connor, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026 Once hired, contractors evaluate how well their AI system completes micro-tasks — such as writing a financial memo or drafting a legal brief — using detailed rubrics to grade the AI’s performance. —

Jake Angelo, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2026 But the other rubrics aren’t kind to Jones, either. —

Kansas City Star, 10 Oct. 2025 These are essentially risk assessment rubrics that aim to measure an AI model's capabilities and define the point at which its behavior becomes dangerous in areas like cybersecurity or biosciences. —

Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025 Create two to three behavioral questions for all candidates and grade them with consistent rubrics. —

Sharon Wu, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025 Erin McGlothlin, the vice dean of undergraduate affairs in WashU’s College of Arts & Sciences, told me this stems from the belief that grading rubrics should be crystal clear in spelling out how class discussion is evaluated. —

Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 17 Aug. 2025 During the hiring process, candidates should be evaluated based on objective criteria, rubrics and scorecards should be integrated into the hiring process, and if culture fit is included as a hiring metric, it should be clearly outlined and defined. —

Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025

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Noun

Burnard and O’Shaughnessy point out that, whereas Britain regularly sent nobles to govern the Caribbean colonies—and dukes and earls to Ireland—the men appointed to administer the thirteen colonies more often lacked titles and were paid less.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
The Las Vegas Aces play in the 12,000-seat Michelob Ultra Arena, yet CNBC pegs the value of the team, which won WNBA titles in 2022, 2023 and 2025 , at $500 million, fourth on our list.

— Michael Ozanian, CNBC, 4 May 2026