gauge
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"Allowing an independent person come and look and see is important to be able to gauge that," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Little tough to gauge Jacksonville’s 34-10 win last week because the Jaguars were playing the Browns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The trade group surveys builders across the U.S. to gauge their sentiment regarding the construction of single-family homes.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Both are too subjective and slow, so new drugs often fail clinical trials not necessarily because they’re ineffective, but because the gauge measuring them is faulty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
A malfunctioning gauge in the torus had shown a sudden drop in pressure.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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U.S. core inflation, a measure that strips out food and energy which gauges underlying price trends, rose 0.3% on month in August, beating expectations, data from the Labor Department showed on Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
It analyzed people’s roles against academic gauges on a job’s “exposure” to AI.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
One possible long-term remedy might be river level gauges that relay changes to authorities in real-time, giving residents 20-30 minutes of warning, he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Indonesia’s central bank stood pat again Wednesday as the rupiah stabilizes and it gauges the impact of prior interest-rate hikes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The gauges, this time, registered almost nothing: only a feeble and momentary tremor.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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What makes things even more difficult is that it’s impossible, as of now, to pinpoint the exact time and location of a downpour, even though it can be gauged with marvelous accuracy.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 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
Chevron shares were among the big gainers on Monday as investors gauged the impact of U.S. actions against Venezuela, including the capture of Nicolás Maduro.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
I gauged the distance to the seat and prepared to jump for it.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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The British social attitude survey, carried out by the National Centre for Social Research, has been gauging public opinion since 1983.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
The monthly U.S. payrolls report used to be as much about gauging the Federal Reserve’s reaction as the actual number of Americans hired and fired.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
Ruthanne looked sideways at me, I guess gauging if my level of enthusiasm deserved her tale.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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