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touchstone
Synonyms and Antonyms of touchstone
something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared his book has long been a touchstone for travel writing that aspires to be literature Synonyms bar, barometer, benchmark, criterion, gold standard, grade, mark, measure, metric, par, standard, yardstickRelated Words case, example, instance; average, norm, rule; acme, apex, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, zenithNear Antonyms aberration, abnormality, deviation
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