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Having recognized excellence or authority.

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#1·Apr 27, 2026UK

Having recognized excellence or authority.

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#2·Apr 27, 2026UK

Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.

Origin: From , from , from , equivalent to . An alternative etymology derives the second element from (compare , , ). Merged with , stander, standere, equivalent to . More at stand, hard, ord. As a hill-naming term possibly a ; equivalent to , arising with confusion with the hill-naming element chimney. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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  • “#Indonesia #quake M3.9 | Indonesia: Northern Molucca Sea | 3m ago | May 6, 2026 04:59 pm (Philippine Standard Time) Did you feel it? Submit a report! Aftershock of M7.4 quake 5 weeks earlier #weak #M2+ #M3+ #Indonesia”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “i mean most places theyre officially called something else but go up to a rural 60 year old who doesnt know english they will be excited to call it that. but i would get behind a leiitle dinkums international standard.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “A quiet standard outlives public approval.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Your EU clients are starting to ask for e-invoices. Cannelle now generates UBL 2.1 XML — the standard used across the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, and more. One click. Downloads instantly. Saved automatically to the invoice record. www.cannelle.io/blog/xml-inv...”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “#Indonesia #Erdbeben M3.9 | Indonesia: Northern Molucca Sea | vor 3m | 6. Mai. 2026 16:59 (Philippine Standard Time) Haben Sie es gespürt? Beben melden! Aftershock of M7.4 quake 5 weeks earlier #weak #M2+ #M3+ #Indonesien”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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#3·Apr 27, 2026UK

(of a tree or shrub) Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.

standard works in history; standard authors
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  • “Coupled with game systems getting stale and long in the tooth, DT was not as well recieved as previous expansions. It doesn't mean it was terrible, it just wasn't up to the standard that had been set.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “A lot of technical praise went to the Pion WebRTC library. Using an open-source Go implementation for server-side scaling instead of standard libwebrtc was a major point of interest for those looking at how they handle massive concurrent audio streams. 2/4”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “My standard is in the Historically Accurate Continental Clip so he's real fancy fancy, walking education station 🙂‍↕️”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “#NewZealand #quake M2.8 | New Zealand | 3m ago | May 5, 2026 06:53 pm (New Zealand Standard Time) Did you feel it? Submit a report! #minor #M2+ #New_Zealand”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “I hope it is just the standard preview editing that makes it look boring as fuck”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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