baseline
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This way, a state that aggressively removes ineligible or fraudulent enrollees would see its totals fall but its per person baseline untouched.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Even in the pivotal clinical trials, not all participants ended up with clinically meaningful weight loss, which is considered 5% from baseline.
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
Psychologists call this hedonic adaptation: the tendency to absorb improvements into our baseline until they no longer feel like gains.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
"Regaining weight brings people back toward baseline risk -- not beyond it," says Magkos.
From Science Daily • May 17, 2026
The longer the baseline from which we make our two observations, the greater the parallax and the better we can measure the distance to remote objects.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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