How to Use gold standard in a Sentence

gold standard

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  • Seven to nine hours for healthy adults is the gold standard.
    — WSJ, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The 7,430-yard Gold Course is pretty much the gold standard here.
    — Scott Kramer, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • At the time, the B-52 bomber was the gold standard of aerial firepower.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN, 17 Dec. 2022
  • But the gold standard of the seat-of-the-pants gardener is the volunteer seedling.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The gold standard draped in blue has won 23 of the last 28 against the Padres and a staggering nine series in a row.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2022
  • For Nike, the Jordan brand and its ties to Michael Jordan remain the gold standard.
    — Jordyn Holman, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Nathan Lewis is the author of three books about gold standard systems.
    — Nathan Lewis, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • The issue with using outliers as the gold standard is twofold.
    — Grace Staberg, Outside Online, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The guidelines are meant to set a gold standard for the field of transgender health care, and this would be the first update since 2012.
    — New York Times, 15 June 2022
  • The diagnostic gold standard is to culture it in a lab from a swab or to have a blood test.
    — Amy Bennett Williams, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
  • Five states require four of them, and most states require at least one gold standard.
    — Stephanie Kuzydym, courier-journal.com, 10 May 2023
  • Brushing your pet’s teeth though remains the gold standard for your pet’s mouth care.
    — Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The case might be someone who left the company five years ago and remains the gold standard.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Experts say that kind of curriculum is the gold standard for what should be taught in schools.
    — Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Robert Caro’s biographies of LBJ are a true gold standard.
    — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Tell me about your beauty tips–any rules or gold standards, first and foremost?
    — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2024
  • For you, who is the gold standard for rock musicians who both sing lead and play lead guitar?
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The content was less important than the frequency; the gold standard was four posts a day.
    — Jacob Sweet, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The gold standard was abridged during the Great Depression, and in 1971, President Nixon cut the gold link for good.
    — Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Before 1914, the financial dominance of the City had rested on the strength of the pound sterling, based in turn on the gold standard.
    — Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Canada Goose pretty much has set the gold standard for what a winter coat should be.
    — John Thompson, Men's Health, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Hide No state requires all of these gold standards for high school athletes.
    — Stephanie Kuzydym, courier-journal.com, 10 May 2023
  • But the other part, what made Pelé the indelible gold standard of the global game, was timing.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2022
  • His 15 majors are second only to Jack Nicklaus and his 18, the gold standard in golf.
    — oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The Washington Post’s Michelle Singletary is my gold standard go-to for tips on that.
    — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Wild Alaskan salmon are a gold standard for American seafood.
    — Becki Robins, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Since its founding in 1925, Le Creuset has been known for making the gold standard of cookware — and for good reason.
    — Kelsey Mulvey, Good Housekeeping, 13 June 2022
  • One project that’s looking to be the gold standard of gaming tokens is PolyPlay.
    — Yusuf Berkan Altun, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The event focused on gold standard policies, life-saving equipment and training and legislation that could help keep young athletes alive.
    — Veda Morgan, The Courier-Journal, 3 Jan. 2024
  • For the study, the researchers also had dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry measurements, a gold standard for body composition that measured fat mass and lean mass in each of the youths.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 3 June 2024

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