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Centuries ago, whenever manuscript writers inserted special instructions or explanations into a book, they put them in red ink to set them off from the black used in the main text. (They used the same practice to highlight saints' names and holy days in calendars, a practice which gave us the term red-letter day.) Ultimately, such special headings or comments came to be called rubrics, a term that traces back to ruber, the Latin word for "red." While the printing sense remains in use today, rubric also has an extended sense referring to any class or category under which something is organized.
Examples of rubric in a Sentence
Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024
In the initial 2023 lawsuit, about 100 school districts argued that the TEA had unfairly recalibrated the rubric for scoring and waited too long to communicate those changes, and that those adjustments would result in lower scores for many districts.
—Keri Heath, Austin American-Statesman, 30 Sep. 2024
In the middle of the twentieth century, the United States allowed the seasonal migration of agricultural guest workers from Mexico under the rubric of the Bracero Program.
—Lant Pritchett, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
That’s just a reflection of how all people deal with their natural physiologies; normies like you and I, as human beings with mouths, can also be sorted into Kelly’s rubric in some way.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Rubric.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rubric. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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