threshold
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Treasury yields are hovering just below 5%, a key psychological threshold, with inflation data due this morning.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
Even among women below that threshold, higher strength levels were associated with significantly lower mortality risk.
From Science Daily • May 12, 2026
A higher threshold may reduce wrongful interventions but could allow legitimate threats to go undetected.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
But from the time it first reached that threshold to the peak in prices, Brent futures rose less than 5% in about two weeks.
From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026
He remained right on the threshold, the door open behind him.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Vocabulary lists containing threshold
The House on Mango Street
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