gauge
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Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman all but confirmed Wednesday that the team would be in contact with the Tigers to gauge their asking price for reigning AL Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Analyst Cameron Halkett recommends that investors look past the short-term cost impacts of Pinnacle’s acquisition of Pacific Asset Management, and instead focus on underlying net profit to gauge performance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
There was no way to gauge the reaction in the room.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
To gauge what is happening behind the scenes, The Times used Claude Code to build a scraper to identify job postings at Disney, Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros.,
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Reyna met her eyes, as if trying to gauge how serious the offer was.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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But some gauges of momentum-stock performance were doing much worse.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
Their team also installed rain gauges and went into the field each week with advanced laser-imaging technology, known as lidar, to measure and track the cliffs before and after a collapse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index is one of the most optimistic gauges versus its past history, yet it shows that people are nearly as negative as they were when Covid was surging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
That could stoke market volatility gauges over the coming months, especially under the Fed’s new leadership of Chairman Kevin Warsh, who prefers a tighter communication policy with fewer market signals.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
Then she sat scanning the collection of gauges and instruments.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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As far as can be gauged, the Crown Prince's popularity remains high among young Saudis.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
An Institute of Governmental Studies poll in August gauged interest in the potential candidacy of Newsom and Harris.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026
The S&P 500 has slid 2.5% in March, while the U.S. bond market, as gauged by the iShares Core U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026
Argentina’s bonds and equities have swung wildly in recent months as markets gauged whether his promise to slash public spending could survive politically.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
I gauged I could be up and down those porch steps, compass in hand, in five seconds.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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But there’s also been a slight shift back toward gauging the room for rate cuts.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
As investors increasingly search for bottlenecks in the globe-spanning supply chain for AI, gauging whether profits will meet the hype, Micron suggested a worldwide scramble for memory shows no sign of slowing down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Kingsley looks at me, gauging if I’ve grasped the heartbreak of the moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
There are no communications inside the VAR room, no mobile phones, no way of gauging if you've done the right thing.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
Then, gauging my continued reluctance, he snarls, “You’ve been to the crow’s nest, haven’t you? You’ve been partaking of its odious libations. I can see it in your eyes!”
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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