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yardsticks

  • plural
    of yardstick.
    yardstick
    noun
    a stick a yard long, commonly marked with subdivisions, used for measuring.

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By the usual economic yardsticks — such as income, industry and technology — it looks fully developed, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Bank treat it that way.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

But it occurred to me—while watching people waiting for gas at Costco—that the usual yardsticks don’t apply.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026

Based on yardsticks such as the price/earnings ratio and enterprise value to free cash flow, the valuation isn’t egregious.

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

Even if he did not have a famous writer for a father, Dubus would have plenty of yardsticks against which to measure his achievements, pains and pleasures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

Instinctively, I felt that I was lying on my back, not my stomach, but I really was doing neither—most normal yardsticks disappear in space, and I was no more lying than standing or falling.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins