How to Use the gold standard in a Sentence

the gold standard

noun

• For longevity and two-way production, that is the gold standard across the league.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Mar. 2023
• This is the gold standard for keeping woodchucks out, says Owen.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2024
• This data should make these drugs the gold standard for treatment.
  — Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 13 Sep. 2023
• The study is not peer-reviewed, the gold standard for science, because the month just ended.
  — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2023
• For me that is always the gold standard of songwriting.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2024
• It’s been the gold standard for a sound spending limit ever since.
  — Vance Ginn, National Review, 22 Dec. 2023
• For over a decade, the gold standard for the most durable data storage medium has been crystal.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Sep. 2024
• The surveys that those researchers analyzed for the book have been considered by many to be the gold standard in the field.
  — Thom Reilly, The Conversation, 10 June 2024
• In the study, the test caught 83% of the cancers but very few of the precancerous growths found by colonoscopy, the gold standard for colon cancer screening.
  — Carla K. Johnson, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
• The Maldives fly-and-flop remains the gold standard of Asian honeymoons for a reason.
  — Katie James Watkinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2024
• This one is no instant classic, ranking more along the lines of April Fool’s Day than the gold standard of its ilk, Halloween.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Nov. 2023
• Hall used to watch videos of Joyner-Kersee, who is considered the gold standard of the women’s heptathlon.
  — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
• Of course, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is still the gold standard.
  — PCMAG, 30 May 2024
• Their ultimate goal is to be the gold standard of Brazilian surgery centers.
  — Geoff Whitmore, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
• There are many who claim to understand and explain world events, but Hal is the gold standard by which others should be judged.
  — John Cornyn, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
• It’s always been universally hailed as the gold standard of the rock concert film.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2023
• Having received a rare five-mic rating from The Source for Illmatic, Nas was the gold standard.
  — Time, 10 Aug. 2023
• Cold therapy has been the gold standard in DIY migraine relief for decades thanks to the numbing effect of a good ice pack.
  — The Glamour Editors, Glamour, 27 June 2023
• Albites said the gold standard to prevent heat stroke is a Polar Life Pod, but schools also use a tarp and cold water.
  — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 17 July 2024
• Statins still ‘the gold standard’ There are some limitations to this trial.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 4 Mar. 2023
• At that time, HBO was the gold standard of original programming.
  — Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 25 May 2024
• Treasury bonds are the gold standard of investment, backed by the U.S. government.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023
• Yellow cake with chocolate frosting and sprinkles is the gold standard.
  — Joe Sevier, Bon Appétit, 2 Mar. 2023
• After all, Walton has long been the gold standard for passing centers.
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
• Offset-shank worm hooks are the gold standard for this technique when fishing with thinner baits, like finesse worms and lizards.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 17 Apr. 2023
• Pros Gastric bypass surgery is considered the gold standard for weight loss surgery.
  — Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 5 July 2024
• For all the tokens, coins, forks, chains and NFTs, bitcoin remains the gold standard in cryptocurrency.
  — Jason Abbruzzese, NBC News, 28 Mar. 2023
• McCoury, the elder statesman of bluegrass music, now 85, represents the gold standard of the genre.
  — Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024
• These are now considered the gold standard for above-knee prostheses.
  — Jothy Rosenberg, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Their chili crisp remains the gold standard stateside, and is joined by nuanced Mala spice for dusting proteins, and Zhong sauce for dipping dumplings and more.
  — Sunset Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024