as in standard
something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared
the gold standard for accurate experimental procedures is the double-blind medication trial
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By appearing in their fourth Super Bowl in five seasons, the Chiefs are threatening to secure the pole position vacated by the New England Patriots, who spent nearly two decades as the NFL's gold standard.
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Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2024
This gold standard Maybelline mascara has been around since 1971, and continues to rank amongst new releases and prestige formulas as one of the bestselling mascaras of all time.
—Olivia Cigliano, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
Its role could be not to judge or condemn but to report; its data, a gold standard for courts, governments, NGOs, and scholars.
—Charli Carpenter, Foreign Affairs, 9 May 2011
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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Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2024
This gold standard Maybelline mascara has been around since 1971, and continues to rank amongst new releases and prestige formulas as one of the bestselling mascaras of all time.
—Olivia Cigliano, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
Its role could be not to judge or condemn but to report; its data, a gold standard for courts, governments, NGOs, and scholars.
—Charli Carpenter, Foreign Affairs, 9 May 2011
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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