barometer
Example Sentences
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There is only one true barometer when it comes to comparing teams: silverware.
From BBC
She asked for a barometer and an anemometer and a rain gauge for Christmas, and hung them outside her bedroom window.
From Literature
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent almost certainly would point to another asset as the country’s barometer.
From Barron's
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
