barometer
Example Sentences
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The barometer is now at its highest since January 2022, the survey said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
“Brent crude oil prices remain below $100 per barrel—a good barometer of how talks between Tehran and Washington are perceived to be progressing,” AJ Bell investment director Russ Mould said.
From Barron's • May 27, 2026
The 10-year Treasury yield, a barometer for mortgage rate movements, increased roughly 0.11 percentage point between Thursday, May 14 and Wednesday, May 20—roughly the period reflected in Freddie Mac’s weekly average.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
But that still leaves Wall Street’s main equity barometer just a fraction below this month’s fresh record high.
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
The barometer had only recently been invented, and Descartes was one of the first people to suggest that what it measured was the weight of air pressing down on the surface of the Earth.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Vocabulary lists containing barometer
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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