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
The serial overcharging was discovered through inspections by Marin County’s Department of Agriculture, Division of Weights and Measures and its counterparts across the state.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2024
Weights absolutely equall, moved with equall Velocity, are of equall Force and Moment in their operations.
From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galilei, Galileo
