How to Use gold standard in a Sentence

gold standard

noun
  • There are many—and maybe plump ripeness isn’t the gold standard.
    Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2021
  • However, life in the U.S. is the gold standard for the world!
    Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 22 Dec. 2020
  • In the eyes of many, the Olympic Games and winning a gold medal is the gold standard in all of sports.
    Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 28 July 2021
  • It’s the biggest change in money since the end of the gold standard.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • For two decades, Gonzaga has been the gold standard in the WCC.
    Steve Kroner, SFChronicle.com, 15 Jan. 2021
  • The Golden Arches have long been the gold standard of fast food.
    Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • The Porsche 911 has long served as the gold standard against which all other sports cars are judged.
    chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2021
  • For stressed, parched skin, this facial oil is the gold standard.
    Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2021
  • For your down payment, 20% of the cost of the home is the gold standard but not always required.
    Deborah Acosta, WSJ, 14 May 2021
  • Still, the colonoscopy remains the gold standard for screening.
    Mary Jacobs, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2021
  • 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 60/40 portfolio was once the gold standard for buy-and-hold investors.
    Artem Milinchuk, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • That program is still the gold standard OSU is striving for.
    Stephen Means, cleveland, 29 July 2021
  • 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
  • Not even the Soviet Union, which set the gold standard for decades, managed that.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2021
  • The gold standard wasn’t perfect, but the fiat dollar has been even worse.
    William J. Luther and Alexander William Salter, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2021
  • In practice, the legislation put the U.S. on the gold standard.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • The current gold standard for ultra-precise timekeeping is the cesium atomic clock, where the tiny and fixed energy transitions of the atom’s electrons are used to keep track of time.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Boston Dynamics is the absolute gold standard in robotics research, and has been for decades.
    New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2024

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