How to Use criterion in a Sentence

criterion

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  • What were the criteria used to choose the winner?
  • No changes were made to the criteria for how the rule is judged.
    — Curtis Zupke, latimes.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Winning games is not the main criteria used for the awards.
    — Marvin Glassman, Jewish Journal, 24 May 2017
  • And this is like, that's the one piece of criteria to stick to, is have fun.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 4 May 2023
  • Both of these criteria are at the core of what ultimate is all about.
    — Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 12 July 2018
  • To meet these criteria, a fish finder doesn’t have to do it all.
    — Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
  • The criteria is simply that all the bands on the bill must have at least one female member.
    — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2018
  • The Jayhawks have plenty of foes that fit the criteria.
    — Jesse Newell, kansascity, 29 June 2018
  • That allowed him to meet the polling criteria for entry.
    — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2020
  • But the criteria for the TV show is to find songs that a queen can perform.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Your training seems at odds with some of these criteria.
    — Rob Walker, The Seattle Times, 29 June 2018
  • At the local halls of fame, the criteria are different.
    — Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2023
  • What is the criteria that folks in Austin are looking to fill this job full-time?
    — Charles Baggarly, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2023
  • And the criteria for the A-to-F letter grades are on the table for some tweaks.
    — Cynthia Howell, arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2023
  • Officers said this didn’t meet the criteria for a threat.
    — Zach Mentz, cleveland, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The Browns were one of six teams that met the show's three criteria for selection.
    — Tim Hackett, SI.com, 17 May 2018
  • That was also the criterion set for the trials of younger children.
    — New York Times, 23 Mar. 2022
  • But that’s not the only criterion to look at in a trial.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 1 Oct. 2020
  • From there, see which of those favorites meet your criteria.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
  • Whether these new criteria will be challenged in court remains to be seen.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • None of the alerts’ criteria require a person to have been missing for a certain amount of time.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 1 Sep. 2023
  • But the first criterion will prove easy for most films to satisfy.
    — Kyle Buchanan New York Times, Star Tribune, 13 Sep. 2020
  • Yet there are no criteria for Coach of the Year that Brown does not meet.
    — Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Fast growth, remember, is a very poor criterion in the choice of a shade tree.
    — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 21 Dec. 2017
  • And that was not long enough by their internal criteria to give me credit.
    — Mekado Murphy, New York Times, 26 May 2017
  • All of the units tested met every criteria in some fashion.
    — Andrew Northshield, Popular Mechanics, 6 Nov. 2018
  • Covid vaccines are still too new to meet this criterion.
    — Heidi Overton, National Review, 15 Mar. 2022
  • In China's case, only the first of these three criteria is met.
    — Jeffrey Sachs For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The point is this isn’t a normal government by any criteria.
    — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Miles fit the criteria for one of them, and Nikki tapped her inner warrior to get him in.
    — Amy Spencer, Good Housekeeping, 30 Mar. 2018

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