pass-fail
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pass-fail
First recorded in 1955–60
Example Sentences
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“Your experience is timed but not in a pass-fail sense,” Nelson says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
It ended much of the drama of the tests by scrapping the "pass-fail" model and introducing a more nuanced, bank-specific capital regime.
From Reuters ● Jun. 26, 2023
“We are not through a threshold or past the threshold. There’s no such thing as pass-fail when it comes to the climate crisis.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2022
As the countdown approaches zero, a sea of strangers expecting to be entertained turns its collective gaze in their direction, eager to dole out pass-fail grades.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2021
Or concocting a pass-fail test—he was famous for that type—where he threaded together questions that could throw a guy for a loss, with what seemed like a million possible answers.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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