yardsticks

plural of yardstick

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Recent Examples of yardsticks These are demographic, livability and financial yardsticks in which California sits amongst the top 10 states. Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025 The machine learning field is moving fast, and the yardsticks used measure progress in it are having to race to keep up. Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2025 Traditional yardsticks like revenue and profit matter less than the company’s ETH stash. Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yardsticks
Noun
  • Since you’re still considered a federal employee on furlough, any job must fall within the federal government’s standards of ethical conduct and rules.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • And the typical rules of decorum are loosened as a result — at least by golf standards.
    Bob Harkins, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The dietary recommendations were based on data about risks of preventable diseases like Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, not environmental criteria.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Each student gets a score, according to MPS admission criteria.
    Rory Linnane, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement Developing benchmarks isn’t just about knowing how good models are.
    Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Nearly 24% of third- through eighth-graders attending MPS met or exceeded grade-level benchmarks in English language arts, about 6 percentage points lower than Milwaukee choice students who took the exam.
    Kayla Huynh, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • WalletHub then evaluated the five dimensions using 45 relevant metrics, with their corresponding weights.
    Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Though the timing was coincidental, the central bank district in September unveiled its own dashboard of data measuring key labor market metrics including unemployment, the hiring rate and the layoff rate.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Yardsticks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yardsticks. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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