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The phrase "a yardstick for" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a standard or measure by which something can be judged or assessed.
Example: "The new policy serves as a yardstick for evaluating employee performance across the organization."
Alternatives: "a benchmark for" or "a standard for".
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"We need a yardstick for success.
At least the report offers a yardstick for measuring future failures.
The mortgage industry has a yardstick for measuring the size of those profits.
Re-population provides a yardstick for areas whose decline had caused people to move away.
Richard Strauss called for "lots of horns, which are always a yardstick for heroism".
He thinks measuring biodiversity is a yardstick for how society is doing.
Mechanical precompression stress is a yardstick for the strength and compressibility of soils.
It is utterly wrong to regard participation in air strikes as a yardstick for international commitment".
They then made this experience a yardstick for evaluating future losses.
Thomas knows that the Indiana game could be a yardstick for his club.
But I kind of view it more as a yardstick for how much I've accomplished.
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