barometer
Example Sentences
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But in one regard, they overlap: As Cronkite was in his time, Rogan is now an essential barometer of national sentiment in a fractured and suspicious age.
A four-Test series away to world champions South Africa is at the heart of a testing 2026 schedule and will be brutal barometer of where the team, and a rugby nation, stand.
From BBC
He said that most of Wall Street still sees capital spending from hyperscale cloud companies as a barometer of the AI trade’s health.
From MarketWatch
Ditto for the so-called core CPI rate seen as a better barometer of inflation trends.
From MarketWatch
A barometer of service-oriented companies that employ most Americans also turned positive in December for the first time in seven months.
From MarketWatch
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