barometer
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Strength itself is also a remarkably good barometer of health.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
"The ultimate barometer of success for us: are our customers happy enough with the service that they want to return again next year? And it seems that they are."
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
And it’s an interesting barometer of where we are as a country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The Fed views the PCE index — the core rate in particular — as the most accurate barometer of U.S. inflation trends.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Most of the list came from the state eighth grade curriculum: barometer, decagon, perpendicular .
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
Both are considered barometers for the economy’s health.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
And besides that, with their hard-fought Final Four victories Friday over Texas and Connecticut, respectively, barometers for other programs that dream of ascending to such elite heights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026
And special elections, while useful metrics, are far from perfect barometers of public opinion.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 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
Extra clothes, books, scientific instruments and specimens, chess sets, flags, lanterns, tools, sewing kits, lucky talismans, razors, barometers, combs, scissors, playing cards, dishes, silverware, photographs—each man added to the heap.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
Vocabulary lists containing barometer
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Weather and Climate - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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