barometer
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A closely watched barometer of financial-market stress on Thursday climbed to its highest level since the eurozone debt crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Chairman of the Isle of Man Foodbank David Gawne said the third sector was also seeing the impact, and said the charity had become "something of a barometer" for the island's economic pressures.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
But this time around, it has become a new barometer of actual AI demand in the data-center, electrical-grid and power-infrastructure sectors.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Nvidia results after market close Wednesday will be closely watched, with the artificial-intelligence chip company’s earnings and guidance seen as a key barometer of the AI trade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Descartes knew all about this work—as we have mentioned, he suggested the idea of taking a barometer up a mountain to see how the pressure changed with altitude.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
Both are considered barometers for the economy’s health.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Breach described High Streets as one of the most "visible barometers" of how a local economy is faring, saying where High Streets are performing badly voters expect intervention which requires more than cosmetic change.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
If the Dodgers choose not to mess with team success, they would not afford Yamamoto the chance to hit either of those traditional barometers of excellence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Privately produced reports suggest little change in prices during the shutdown, but they are not as comprehensive as the government’s inflation barometers — chiefly, the consumer-price index and personal-consumption expenditures index.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025
Telescopes and microscopes depended on pre-existing techniques for making lenses, and thermometers and barometers depended on pre-existing techniques for blowing glass.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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