How to pronounce yardstick
Listen to yardstick in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
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“yardstick” in real sentences
55 clips in the index · 26 American · 11 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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necessarily a good yardstick.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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And now that yardstick has gone totally wrong.
USGS · hear it here
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yardstick by which to measure the progress of machine intelligence.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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take last year as a yardstick, last year alone was $206 billion.
GAO · hear it here
Why real speech
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