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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a touchstone against which" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a standard or criterion for evaluating something.
Example: "The company's ethical guidelines serve as a touchstone against which all employee actions are measured."
Alternatives: "a benchmark for" or "a standard by which".
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This allowed it to become a giant in the sitcom genre and made it a touchstone against which others of the genre will continue to compare themselves.
A company's identity, which serves as a touchstone against which it can evaluate its choices, is often a more enduring statement of strategic intent.
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This twelve-month was very possibly the high-water mark for homegrown drama, the touchstone against which all future contributions must be measured.
The man who announced his arrival on the big stage at Lord's not just by scoring 95 but "walking" when he knew he was out, was the touchstone against which other players around the world checked themselves.
The surviving fragments are, in fact, a touchstone by which to judge all other carpets.
It has less to do with the state's interests in promoting childbearing — a touchstone to which the Prop.
And his borrowings don't even suggest an interventionist cinephilia that uses such classics as a touchstone on which to test modern mores.
Absent experience, reason is without a touchstone through which hypotheses can be refuted.
School provides the very structure and rhythm that they've lost, a touchstone which will help overcome shock and trauma".
Unfortunately, the myth has become a touchstone of toughness by which presidents are measured.
It has provided a touchstone, a point around which the team and, ideally, the country can rally.
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