barometer
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For Celtic, with all the advantages they hold over most others in Scotland, the true barometer is Europe.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
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
Research group GfK said its consumer-confidence barometer, published Friday with the Nuremberg Institute for Market Decisions, rose 6 points to minus 17 in July—the largest increase in sentiment since November 2023.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Much later, Pascal drew upon Galileo’s work when studying pressures in liquids in order to understand how the air supports a column of mercury in a barometer.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Both are considered barometers for the economy’s health.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
More recent employment barometers, meanwhile, suggest companies are not hiring many people.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 18, 2025
Copper and oil prices are considered barometers of global economic health.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2025
Ranganath also says that our loved ones can be our best barometers of how we're doing cognitively.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024
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
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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