Criterion

//kɹɪˈtɪəɹi.ən//

"Criterion" in a Sentence (15 examples)

What criterion did you use when you elected this essay as the winner?

Money is not a criterion of success.

My criterion is the ability to work joyfully.

Americans are said to regard the amount of money a man makes as a criterion of his ability.

It is certain that one important criterion for employment is having 'leadership'.

The size of a man's laundry bill is no criterion of his income.

The traditional definition of criterion validity is the correlation of a scale with some other measure of the trait under study, ideally a 'gold standard'.

I divide all literary works into two categories: those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.

The World Health Organization says the coronavirus outbreak does not yet fit the criterion for a pandemic — but warns a pandemic is possible and nations should prepare.

This is a secondary criterion.

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Near-synonym: benchmark

criterion of choice, of decision, of selection

Knowledge has come to her too soon—knowledge of evil, unqualified by the general charities which longer experience infallibly brings; but her age has lent its own freshness to this first great emotion; it becomes unconsciously a criterion, and the judgment is harsh, because the remembrance is bitter.

The Enlightment worldview, which considered the order of "Nature" as a basis and, at the same time, the subject of explorations of scientific natural sciences, has, at the same time, considered this order as a criterion of the artistically-aesthetic qualities of art. From an "ideological" point of view, it liberated art from its feudal religious and courtly servitude.

Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?

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