baseline

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If growth proves more resilient than in prior such episodes and shelter inflation fails to slow further, Morgan Stanley thinks the pass-through to core CPI could be greater than its baseline estimate.

From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026

That’s the baseline for many news outlets to broadcast or publish a story.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Yes, chatbots are unusually persuasive, and writers pick up model biases without even knowing it, but the baseline isn’t some platonic ideal of a perfectly objective journalist.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

In their analysis, the researchers used 3.6 percent as a baseline scenario and compared it with lower leakage rates of 0.5 percent and a scenario with no feedstock emissions.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026

She popped one in from the baseline, and so did I. She hit a jumper from the foul line, and I did, too.

From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman