standards
- plural of standard.
Example Sentences
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Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday that Bangladeshi authorities were failing to uphold international legal standards.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Publication in the Journal means only that an article is original, has met scholarly standards and been peer-reviewed; not that its analysis or conclusions are endorsed by the Journal’s editors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
“Ensuring the safety, security, and well-being of individuals in our custody is a top priority at ICE. ICE has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The contrasting standards vex those worried for the future of public education.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
I was also forty years old—practically a spinster by that era’s standards.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
