peg
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Police had falsely accused Walters of the crime simply to knock him down a peg?
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Business investment accounts for about 19% of GDP, making it the next-largest peg.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
President Nixon admitted, in effect, that he was gutting the international monetary system by cutting loose the dollar from the gold-price peg, the Journal wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
A massive parasitic outbreak has taken Taco Bell down a peg, and now it has to rebuild its momentum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
She hung her hat on the peg and looked over to the fire, then back at him.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
“Talladega Nights” pegs this missing link between America’s urban past and its exurban future from its opening seconds, putting a quote about “hot, nasty, badass speed” in the mouth of New York Swell Eleanor Roosevelt.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
It pegs Tenaga Nasional and YTL Power International as its top picks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s survey pegs the decline at about 17.5 percent within city limits during that period.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
In the following months he bought accessories such as awning screw-in pegs for £15.98 and wheel clamps and keys for £119.98.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Major Major often paid strict attention to the horseshoes falling softly against the earth or riding down around the small steel pegs in the ground.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
His first test was the Genius Act, a bill to regulate stablecoins—a type of digital asset pegged to real-world currencies, like dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Chatfield asked the Los Angeles Times in 1997 in response to criticism from community members and some local officials who pegged his nonprofit as inconveniencing residents by helping homeless people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Blown away in a 26-minute opening set, fourth seed Gauff was twice pegged back from a break up in a scrappy second set before coming through a 16-point tie-break to force a decider.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Stablecoins are pegged to the value of real assets held in a reserve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Indeed! I had you pegged as a Northbrook, but I was prepared to talk you out of whatever other ideas you may have had. House Tanaris? House Wolfric? Who knows how people think.”
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
Goldman Sachs strategist on Thursday charted five-year rolling returns on the all-important 10-year Treasury note — pegging it as the worst such period for returns in more than a century.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
TA Securities maintains a neutral rating on the sector, pegging Alliance Bank Malaysia as top pick citing its industry-leading loan growth, robust asset quality and resilient funding profile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Benchmark 10-year Treasury note yields jumped more than five basis points in overnight trading, pegging the paper at 4.535%, the highest in nearly a year.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Yap maintains a positive view on the Malaysian oil and gas sector, pegging Keyfield and Perdana Petroleum as its top picks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
They made pegging the clothes to the line clumsy work but kept my fingers from freezing solid.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
