Example Sentences
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As a history refresher, the Constitution vests Congress with the power to “coin Money, regulate the Value thereof” and to “fix the Standard of Weights and Measures.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
For 150 years, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures has provided the framework for a common system of measurements for the countries that signed up to the Metre Convention.
From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025
In 1967, the world's timekeepers, an intergovernmental body called the General Conference on Weights and Measures, agreed to define time using atomic clocks, rather than by the Earth's rotation.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2025
“We could not have achieved this result without the outstanding work of our Weights and Measures inspectors as well as vigilant consumers,” said Deputy Dist.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2024
Weights hung at the ends of these cords were the moving forces.
From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Thurston, Robert H.
