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  • noun Attributive form of report card

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Examples

  • IO9's produced a science fiction film physics report-card that evaluates the accuracy of the physics in a large number of top-grossing sf films.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • It's report-card time -- a FORBES-mandated retrospective on my 11 columns published in 2009.

    Get Briefed: Ken Fisher 2010

  • Every nation must know: America will live its values, and we will lead by example "" [12] However, as the Saturday Night Live spoof about the administration's current report-card has suggested, many of President Obama's early initiatives may have been mired by the ongoing and divisive internal politics and the healthcare debate [13].

    Obama's AfPak Dilemma: The Man Who Would Be King Or A Noble Peacemaker? 2009

  • Read the above, and it starts to feel familiar: this is the tone of a second-grade teacher issuing report-card comments on a middling student who -- while "struggling" with the arithmetic and "not contributing as much as he might," has "real potential" and, of course, "is a pleasure to have in the class."

    Ellis Weiner: Our Mister Brooks II: Reloaded 2008

  • The report-card movement has the potential for raising standards of care throughout the health-care system.

    Health Care Report Cards 2008

  • More commonly, the seasonal equivalents are report-card season, birthdays and allowance.

    β€˜Is Santa Claus Real?’ 2007

  • The Golden Arches picked up the $1,600 cost of printing report-card jackets for the 2007-2008 school year in Seminole County, Fla., in exchange for a Happy Meal coupon on the card's cover.

    Trying to Clean Up 2007

  • My report-card refelected my attitude like this by showing me a 27 in calm where I HATE being, and an 84 in cos where I love spending my time.

    tencentlove Diary Entry tencentlove 2006

  • Responding to the DA's "report-card" government spokesman Joel

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • I remembered their birthdays, report-card days, holidays.

    Darkly Dreaming Dexter Lindsay, Jeff 2004

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