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Auto sales for August are due Tuesday, providing another gauge of consumer spending.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

This is despite a U.S. inflation gauge remaining above the Federal Reserve’s target, raising market expectations of the central bank hiking rates by the year-end, they add.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Warsh has stressed his institution's "resolute commitment" to bringing inflation back to target, but has also hinted at changing the measures that the Fed uses to gauge prices.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

The Fed’s main inflation gauge for setting interest rates in July was at a 3.7% yearly rate.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

“Oh, yes—miners used to bring canaries with them to gauge oxygen levels in the mine. If the canary died, they knew the oxygen was running out and they’d better get out of there.”

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

One possible long-term remedy might be river level gauges that relay changes to authorities in real-time, giving residents 20-30 minutes of warning, he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

The third and final part of Flight’s argument is based on a macroeconomic framework from Citadel that gauges market expectations for economic growth and Fed interest rates.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

The Indonesian central bank kept its benchmark seven-day reverse repo rate unchanged at 5.75%, as the rupiah stabilizes and it gauges the impact of prior interest-rate hikes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

That metric gauges how likely chances are to result in goals, taking into account a range of variables, and Arsenal finished with almost three times the xG total of City.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Numbers from strain gauges, measuring forces acting on various parts of the planes structure.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

What makes things even more difficult is that it’s impossible, as of now, to pinpoint the exact time and location of a downpour, even though it can be gauged with marvelous accuracy.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

It couldn’t be determined if they correctly gauged the pattern—or if they will raise premiums again next year partly as a result of the ever-costlier pool of enrollees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

An Institute of Governmental Studies poll in August gauged interest in the potential candidacy of Newsom and Harris.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026

I didn't have discussions about the team with committees, but I gauged as much knowledge as I could from every staff member who was working alongside me.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

Each of these women, on her own, gauged the wind of her nation and used it to help her sister pilots get off the ground.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

The monthly U.S. payrolls report used to be as much about gauging the Federal Reserve’s reaction as the actual number of Americans hired and fired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

But there’s also been a slight shift back toward gauging the room for rate cuts.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

But gauging by the name, I suspect Riley zapped it on his own script.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

There are no communications inside the VAR room, no mobile phones, no way of gauging if you've done the right thing.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

Lazlo squinted across the distance, gauging the blocks’ position relative to the great seraph overhead.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor