barometer
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The company’s stock price has often served as a barometer for the broader AI trade, swinging wildly along with investors’ mood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Strength itself is also a remarkably good barometer of health.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
"The ultimate barometer of success for us: are our customers happy enough with the service that they want to return again next year? And it seems that they are."
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
And it’s an interesting barometer of where we are as a country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
No barometer in the world could measure it.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
Both are considered barometers for the economy’s health.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
More recent employment barometers, meanwhile, suggest companies are not hiring many people.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 18, 2025
Copper and oil prices are considered barometers of global economic health.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2025
Ranganath also says that our loved ones can be our best barometers of how we're doing cognitively.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024
Extra clothes, books, scientific instruments and specimens, chess sets, flags, lanterns, tools, sewing kits, lucky talismans, razors, barometers, combs, scissors, playing cards, dishes, silverware, photographs—each man added to the heap.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Vocabulary lists containing barometer
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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