elevated

Example Sentences

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“What makes things worse, in our view, is that these extreme valuations in the U.S. stock market reflect elevated prices at a time of cyclically extreme earnings,” said the Panmure team.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 29, 2026

Researchers considered all participants to be at elevated risk for Alzheimer's disease.

From Science Daily • Jun. 29, 2026

“Inflation’s going to stay elevated for a while.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2026

“Markets will not believe that there can be an effective Warsh put because of the already elevated pace of inflation accompanied by the large deficit,” Sri-Kumar asserted in an email.

From Barron's • Jun. 26, 2026

Tests on other samples–from Denmark, Spain, France, New Zealand, Antarctica–showed that the iridium deposit was worldwide and greatly elevated everywhere, sometimes by as much as five hundred times normal levels.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson