baseline
Example Sentences
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Delaware’s courts set the governance baseline for much of corporate America.
From Barron's
“This is a baseline figure, and arguably quite conservative,” he said.
“What the data show is that for many families, price increases in everyday necessities reset their baseline,” Primerica CEO Glenn Williams wrote in an email to MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch
Rather than working off a percentage of gross salary, I’ve been using our take-home pay as a baseline, since that reflects what we actually spend now.
From MarketWatch
Two states, Georgia and Wyoming, still have laws that mandate a $5.15-an-hour minimum wage, though employers in those states covered by federal labor laws have to pay the $7.25 hourly national baseline.
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