criterion

Known as the Lawson criterion, this equation defines the conditions required for ignition.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Mr. Diamond’s emphasis on common benchmarks for success—a country’s economic growth, a corporation’s profits—leaves unexplored the possibility that each unique leader might harbor his or her own criterion of achievement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The criterion, external allows the children of parents in receipt of benefits - specifically Income Support, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit - to get priority for a pre-school place.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

"Coolness and summer comfort have become a property criterion in their own right," she said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

But in the writing of scene after scene I was guided by but one criterion: to tell the truth as I saw it and felt it.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

Apovian says if a postpartum woman who has stopped breast-feeding meets the criteria, she would consider starting her on a GLP-1, even if she didn’t qualify before pregnancy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

If the voting criteria is to reward the year’s finest movies, the answer would be an unqualified yes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

So goes the criteria for a role working as chief of staff to Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, the renowned venture firm that’s backed companies including OpenAI, Stripe and DoorDash.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

"We chose Shell because it's an emblematic company. It meets all the criteria," Thales Miola, a lawyer for the Brazilian NGO Instituto Preservar, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Within months, pretty much everyone had given up Klebs’s criterion for Luce’s criteria.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Here I got acquainted with my world, and soon had my criterions of judgment.

From Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

For every provisional synthesis then the time must come when the apparition of truth can no longer command united allegiance, and criterions begin to encroach upon sanctions.

From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt

Those are the criterions of political changes in England—but, as my conversion is of foreign extraction, I shall not be the richer for it.

From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole

They appreciate not the understandings of one another by such manual and muscular criterions.

From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney

First, they are no more the criterions of obeisance and respect, than mourning garments are the criterions of sorrow.

From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 by Thomas Clarkson