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as in title
a word or series of words often in larger letters placed at the beginning of a passage or at the top of a page in order to introduce or categorize
the rubrics at the beginning of the chapters are intended to be humorous
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as in rule
an inherited or established way of thinking, feeling, or doing
the rubric, popular among jewelers anyway, that a man should spend a month's salary on his fiancée's engagement ring
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as in category
one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic
all of these books with their conspiracy theories fall under the rubric of speculative fiction
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Recent Examples of rubric
The series takes the indelible line about the great responsibility that comes with great power and uses it to compare Spider-Man’s idealistic Boy Scout altruism to the goals of other characters who are good guys in their own minds, if not within the moral rubric of the show.
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Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2025
Dakota Johnson, in particular, is almost always a good rubric for perfect boho styling.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 29 Jan. 2025
The identical rubric is found on payment pages for the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus.
—David Phelan, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
The rubric made its first appearance in March 1984 as a function of the magazine’s redesign that followed by two months Apple’s bringing forth the first of its Macintosh computers.
—Harper’s Magazine, Harper's Magazine, 2 Oct. 2024
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Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2025
Dakota Johnson, in particular, is almost always a good rubric for perfect boho styling.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 29 Jan. 2025
The identical rubric is found on payment pages for the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus.
—David Phelan, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
The rubric made its first appearance in March 1984 as a function of the magazine’s redesign that followed by two months Apple’s bringing forth the first of its Macintosh computers.
—Harper’s Magazine, Harper's Magazine, 2 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rubric
Noun
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In 2023, at age 19, Gauff won the U.S. Open singles title.—
Tim Newcomb,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Maybe that’s why Universal didn’t go with this obviously perfect idea for a title?—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
3 Apr. 2025
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Dunne’s Back-Pay Argument Dunne committed to LSU in 2017, four years before the Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) Interim rules went into effect.—
Caroline Price,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Blanket rules tend to hurt the innocent more than the guilty.—
Brad Weisenstein,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2025
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For instance, the international feature category currently honors the submitting country, not the director — even though the director’s name is engraved on the Oscar statuette.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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Seven companies own and operate 11 platforms in the marketplace, with Netflix, Foxtel, Nine, Disney, Amazon, Paramount and Seven securing a 90% share of premium VOD category viewership and revenue in 2024.—
Sara Merican,
Deadline,
10 Apr. 2025
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TikTok users also posted the caption over videos of The Eras Tour, Buc-ees and Barnes & Noble, to name a few.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2025
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The caption of the video spills all the secret ingredients: topped with cream cheese frosting and filled with chili crisp, pickled jalapeño, creme fraiche, and lap cheong (or Chinese sausage).—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Apr. 2025
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In keeping with the tradition of the Ingenieur, a soft-iron inner case shields the movement against the effects of magnetic fields.—
Anthony DeMarco,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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Those laws grew out of the state’s progressive tradition, which sought to restrain the power of wealth in the political system.—
Dan Kaufman,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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According to one Senate Republican, the mood of the GOP conference on the topic was anything but over-joyous heading into Wednesday’s big announcement.—
Al Weaver,
The Hill,
3 Apr. 2025
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The order does not explicitly call out PII or genetic information under that heading.—
Abigail Dubiniecki,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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View Recipe Fruits of all kinds, especially berries, grapes, apples, and citrus, are celebrated by health experts for their anti-inflammatory properties.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
19 Mar. 2025
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Maybe not, and hopefully not, to the same extent—hopefully not ever finding themselves in the position of total dependence on Russian energy of any kind.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
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There’s no giant leap for Siri, which made its own headlines recently.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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OneTaste in its heyday was a titillating blend of San Francisco’s counterculture and its tech boom — a wellness startup that made headlines by advocating female empowerment through orgasm.—
Devlin Barrett,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Rubric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rubric. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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