baseline

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Yes, chatbots are unusually persuasive, and writers pick up model biases without even knowing it, but the baseline isn’t some platonic ideal of a perfectly objective journalist.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

Pearce defines stagflation as unemployment one percentage point above baseline and core PCE inflation over one percentage point above 2% for a year.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

Because in East London, you learn that there is a moral baseline, that there is a right way of behaving, and you’re taught to respect your elders and to sort of look after everyone.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Kansanback recommends pulling a Carfax report of the vehicle’s history as a baseline to check for flood damage, serious accidents or a salvage title.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

Sometimes such radio telescopes are connected with telescopes on the other side of the Earth, forming a baseline comparable to the Earth’s diameter—in a certain sense, a telescope as large as the planet.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan