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[in-deks] / ˈɪn dɛks /




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The Ifo Institute said Monday that its business-climate index, based on around 9,000 monthly responses from businesses, rose to 86.6 in July from 85.7 in June.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

“It’s thicker than two Sears catalogs. Rules that govern home school and private school in West Virginia — those will fit on an index card.”

From Salon Jul. 27, 2026

Its market capitalisation on Seoul's Kospi index soared past $1 trillion in May.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

For example, over the past two years, the index was overly tilted toward growth and price momentum stocks, which made it more sensitive to rates and credit spreads over data.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

He had skimmed twenty pages before it occurred to him to see if the book had an index.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

As a result, the major indexes were little changed.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

European equity indexes largely edged higher in early trade after sharp selling in the last session, and oil pared some recent gains.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Like most stock-picking funds, these have underperformed the indexes recently because of something particular going on in markets at the moment: the crazy boom in large-cap technology giants.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

Interest-rate decisions are also due in Japan and the U.K., while investors will watch Chinese purchasing managers’ indexes plus eurozone gross domestic product and inflation data.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

We checked indexes and even leafed through some of the books page by page to be sure.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

Temperatures climbed into the 90s with heat indices exceeding 100 degrees, forcing organizers to scale back outdoor programming, expand cooling stations and urge visitors to take frequent breaks.

From Salon Jul. 4, 2026

A massive tech selloff roiled Korean stock indices over the past month, as the severity of wartime shortages became clear.

From Slate Jul. 2, 2026

While this enthusiasm repeatedly pushed indices to unprecedented highs, the sustained 90-day rally left stock prices looking incredibly inflated.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

Flash estimate purchasing managers’ indices for June are due from France, Germany and the eurozone on Tuesday, alongside French business surveys for June.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

He's only in the door three seconds before he starts spouting some theory about spectral analysis and the refractive indices of protein substances, and he's carrying a big box full of books and papers.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

"We give site owners clear controls to decide whether pages can be crawled or indexed, and we always respect those directives."

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

Vanguard will manage the indexed equity and indexed and active fixed-income sleeves in the new all-markets fund.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

The amount of money directly indexed to the Russell is measured in billions, not the trillions indexed to the S&P 500.

From Barron's Jun. 29, 2026

Three hundred years later, Gray’s Anatomy by Henry Gray reinforced the impression that the body had finally been catalogued, indexed and neatly organized – a system mapped and fully explained.

From Science Daily Jun. 21, 2026

A simple task be-cause Brother Leon insisted that all kinds of cross- indexed lists be kept so that you could tell at a glance just where students stood.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

As the search indexing of the chat logs is no longer occurring, it is likely Anthropic used available tools to quickly block the chat log links from search results.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

“The problem with indexing is that a true market portfolio doesn’t exist,” Booth says.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

But, he notes, the “average pop has gone down since then even though indexing has increased.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

Thanks to the visionary brilliance of Vanguard founder Jack Bogle and decades of strong returns, indexing is eating more and more of the market each year.

From Slate Jun. 5, 2026

By late 1966, Elizebeth and William were spending several hours a day indexing their library, at least when they were well enough.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield




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