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[in-deks] / ˈɪn dɛks /




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The fire severity is "exceptional", the highest level on the index, in some parts of London including Heathrow, as well as on the Essex and Suffolk coasts.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

When arguing with the prime minister, Mr. Gallant waved his right hand with thumb and index finger extended for emphasis, his eyes lit up with a rare fire.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

The index is getting three new members this month.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

Yet buying portfolio protection through put options on the S&P 500 — derivative contracts that increase in value when the index falls — has been getting cheaper.

From MarketWatch Sep. 4, 2026

The social worker turned toward the car and held up an index finger before turning back to the boy.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

Artificial intelligence-related stocks led European indexes higher, with ASML, the continent’s most valuable company, adding 1.6%.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

This has implications for investors, because stocks of Polish companies will be moved to different indexes — those seen as less risky for investors.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

The latest developments helped all three main US indexes higher, and Asia followed suit.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

Then again, MSCI, another major provider of indexes tracked by exchange-traded funds, still considers Poland an emerging market.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

The warden’s library is a big dark room with heavy red drapes drawn closed and floor-to-ceiling books—the kind of official volumes with thick indexes Natalie likes.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

“Strong external demand, combined with continued implementation of existing investment and industrial-upgrading policies, may support manufacturing activity. But persistently weak domestic demand is likely to keep both indices below the 50 threshold.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

The Barclays team found that over the past week, during which the S&P 500 hit a fresh record high, “skews across global indices collapsed as investors chased the rally and demand for protection faded.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

Temperatures climbed into the 90s with heat indices exceeding 100 degrees, forcing organizers to scale back outdoor programming, expand cooling stations and urge visitors to take frequent breaks.

From Salon Jul. 4, 2026

A massive tech selloff roiled Korean stock indices over the past month, as the severity of wartime shortages became clear.

From Slate Jul. 2, 2026

He's only in the door three seconds before he starts spouting some theory about spectral analysis and the refractive indices of protein substances, and he's carrying a big box full of books and papers.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

"We give site owners clear controls to decide whether pages can be crawled or indexed, and we always respect those directives."

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Vanguard will manage the indexed equity and indexed and active fixed-income sleeves in the new all-markets fund.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Three hundred years later, Gray’s Anatomy by Henry Gray reinforced the impression that the body had finally been catalogued, indexed and neatly organized – a system mapped and fully explained.

From Science Daily Jun. 21, 2026

And that is certainly true when it comes to indexed universal life insurance policies, or IULs.

From MarketWatch Jun. 16, 2026

A simple task be-cause Brother Leon insisted that all kinds of cross- indexed lists be kept so that you could tell at a glance just where students stood.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

As the search indexing of the chat logs is no longer occurring, it is likely Anthropic used available tools to quickly block the chat log links from search results.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

One such strategy, direct indexing, involves buying individual securities that track the performance of an index—such as the S&P 500 or the Schwab 1000—while also generating losses that can be used to reduce capital-gains taxes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Also until 2020, for retail investors to buy DFA’s funds they had to go through fee-charging advisors, which would seem to violate the code of indexing.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

Thanks to the visionary brilliance of Vanguard founder Jack Bogle and decades of strong returns, indexing is eating more and more of the market each year.

From Slate Jun. 5, 2026

Instead she stayed put and kept indexing the collection, determined to preserve William’s place in history.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield




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