registers

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Despite a war, rising gasoline prices and a 74-year low in consumer sentiment, registers kept ringing the past couple of months.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

But there is a third contender who consistently registers double digits in 2028 polling, with numbers quite close to the top two.

From Salon • May 3, 2026

“To experience all the emotional and tonal registers that she’s capable of.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Using linked national registers, they followed when men received new psychiatric diagnoses, beginning one year before pregnancy and continuing until the child reached one year of age.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

Accommodating their innumerate help, the larger franchises now have cash registers which have pictures, on the keys, of the items ordered and automatically add on the appropriate tax.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos