In a sentence
Six example sentences with metric, each labelled with its topic.
Resting heart rate is the metric the coach watches, since it drops weeks before anyone runs a faster mile.
Fitness
The studio judges the tutorial by one metric: the share of players who reach the second area at all.
Gaming
Unemployment is a crude metric, because it counts nobody who stopped looking for work last winter.
Economics
The founders picked one metric to watch, weekly active users, and ignored every vanity number in the dashboard.
Startups
Points per possession is the metric the front office trusts, since raw scoring rewards teams that simply play fast.
Basketball
The expense ratio is the metric to check first, since a fund charging two percent must beat the index just to break even.
Finance
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