How to Use rubric in a Sentence

rubric

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  • The rest of the high school rubric is troublesome, too.
    — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2018
  • None of it makes sense through the rubric of a news division.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 June 2021
  • H&R Block has a handy rubric to check your state’s status.
    — Shep McAllister, Chron, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Michigan-10 can fall under the rubric of a polling failure.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Here are a few guidelines to apply this rubric to your own life.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 7 July 2022
  • In the past, most of the players qualified by a points rubric based on many months of results.
    — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2021
  • That’s why all the thinking that falls under the general rubric of the Green New Deal is so smart.
    — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
  • This rubric can provide basic guidance on how to save and spend.
    — Melanie Lockert, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Using that rubric, the e-bike is always the cheapest option.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 16 Feb. 2023
  • There did not appear to be a clear rubric for which accounts had gained the official tag.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The standards board also plans to create free rubrics and study guides for test takers.
    — Ally Marotti, The Seattle Times, 27 July 2018
  • Those products were launched in late July, under the rubric of Square Banking.
    — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Jacquet and his team map out what skills are required to be successful in each role and create a rubric based on that.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2022
  • All of those messages fit within the rubric of extremism.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Either Tesla or Cadillac won each of the five sub-categories in the CR rubric.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 28 Oct. 2020
  • In 2019, a rubric based on the guide was released to allow campuses to self-assess the strength of their action plan.
    — Raye Maguire, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • One square on a blouse with a loose grid pattern is as flat as the picture plane itself — code for the entire rubric of painting.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The group says the district continually changes the rubric for what teachers must achieve to get a pay increase.
    — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The judges used a rubric to score the presentation and a perfect score for K-3rd grade literature was 100.
    — Independencelocalschools, cleveland.com, 1 May 2018
  • Some men rule by becoming the rules, the unlikely rubric of the heroic and anti-heroic.
    — Harmonyholiday, Longreads, 6 June 2019
  • Its organizing rubrics speak not to a flashpoint, but an arc.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Protons and neutrons make up the atomic nucleus, so the sort of work the EIC would do falls under the rubric of nuclear physics.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 9 Jan. 2020
  • The rubric included items like whether the student’s data was disposed of and whether it was shared with other parties.
    — Wired, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Another recent change is that the universal rubric for what makes up a day has been shattered.
    — Tom Papa, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Natural-hair care is both an art and a science, organized by a rubric of curl patterns.
    — Juliana Kasumu, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Why are they protected under the rubric of substantive due process?
    — Kenji Yoshino, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Let the adults have a go A group of German scientists has now gotten a reasonable amount of money under the rubric of testing all the things.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 May 2018
  • The message to students is: Decide for yourself whether a wine is good, not according to some prescribed rubric.
    — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Rasmussen nodded to the rubric raised by Johnson of the G-7 nations plus his three guests forming a new bloc of 10 major democracies.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
  • But Catherine Olsson, the project’s de facto leader, told me the rubric had helped her internalize what was safe.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 8 Aug. 2021

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