Synonyms for gold standard
gold stan·dard

Princeton's WordNet

1. gold standardnoun

   a monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of gold

2. gold standardnoun

   a paragon of excellence

   "academic education is the gold standard against which other educational activity is pejoratively judged"

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Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gold standard

   Synonyms:
   Criterion standard, definitive standard, reference standard

2. gold standard

   Synonyms:
   Criterion standard

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1. gold standard

   Read the full text of the Gold Standard poem by Kurt Philip Behm on the Poetry.com website.

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1. Andrew Horvat:

   What Abe has to do for smooth sailing is to say something his friends inside the Beltway can sell in Washington, the Murayama Statement is the 'gold standard' but we know that Abe, in his heart of hearts, doesn't want to say what the Murayama Statement said.

2. Du Plessis:

   That is where MRI is the gold standard for picking up changes in the brain, even though it has limitations in terms of availability and cost.

3. Steven Nissen:

   Statins are the gold standard. They are the cornerstone. The purpose of this study was not to replace statins, but to allow an alternative therapy for people who simply cannot take them.

4. Hank Klibanoff:

   What made him the gold standard was that he went where other reporters didn't go, and once he got there they followed.

5. Bruce Klingner:

   Japan relied on a strategy of quickly identifying clusters of new cases and then imposing containment measures to prevent a larger outbreak, with relatively low numbers of COVID cases in Japan, there has been less international focus on the governments response than on South Koreas energetic testing program. While Seouls actions have been described as the gold standard for the world, Japan adopted a less energetic, critics would assert lackadaisical, testing, and closure strategy.