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  • noun Plural form of criterion.

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Examples

  • Whilst many of the marking criterions place “Flair and originality” as the top of the grid, many students are also spoon fed a mass of interpretations, and somewhere in the mist they are told to be “original”.

    3 Easy Ways to Write with Style | Write to Done 2009

  • Here I got acquainted with my world, and soon had my criterions of judgment.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • It was very well shot and had Audrey Tautou in it, 2 criterions for me to watch it.

    Filmstalker: Stalker's Top Ten 2009: Stirton Productions 2010

  • I took my new rig, Vita (named after that first ride because she has vitesse and vitality), down to Long Beach for the first in a series of criterions, [...]

    Insomnia, Sweat and Fraud 2008

  • If a majority of Americans use pet-ownership as one of their criterions for selecting presidents, well ... we might just as well flush our democracy down the toilet, cause we're not going to be smart enough to maintain it.

    Associated Press: Pet Owners Prefer McCain To "Petless" Obama 2009

  • Nature cannot in itself provide the artist with any “criterions of perfection.”

    Art or Nature? James Gurney 2008

  • As a culture we have relinquished our faith in our ability to perceive the world around us and judge it as it truly is; the manufacturers of pictures really are the criterions of perfection.

    Art or Nature? James Gurney 2008

  • The reason is plain: the manufacturers of pictures are then made the criterions of perfection instead of Nature.

    Art or Nature? James Gurney 2008

  • All criterions that are mentioned in the rule books of democracy are put on stacks and it's the commercial entrepreneurship alone that comes into play.

    India on Sale- Your Guess is as Good as Mine! 2008

  • Twice betrayed in his dearest expectations, he had formed two criterions from his peculiar experience, by which he had settled his opinion of the whole female sex; and where opinion may humour systematic prepossession, who shall build upon his virtue or wisdom to guard the transparency of his impartiality?

    Camilla 2008

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