gauge
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The dashboard was foreign but vaguely familiar with a battery gauge instead of a fuel gauge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
"Rather than having matter evolve in a fixed background, the matter and gauge field become part of the same quantum dynamics."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
These qubits represented the gauge fields in the theoretical model.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
In the 1960s Arthur Okun invented the “misery index,” the sum of the inflation and unemployment rates, as a gauge of economic success.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
“My wife leads our warriors. She goes with us not to direct the quest but to gauge the level of support we may expect from our allies.”
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
A widening gap between stock and bond volatility gauges suggests equities could be overlooking inflation, borrowing, and interest-rate risks.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
The Chinese economy showed signs of improvement in September, with official and private gauges of factory, services and construction activity all picking up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
China’s economic activity showed signs of improvement in September, with official gauges of manufacturing, services and construction activity all picking up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
It analyzed people’s roles against academic gauges on a job’s “exposure” to AI.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
I brought in a chair and just sat and watched the gauges.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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
As far as can be gauged, the Crown Prince's popularity remains high among young Saudis.
From BBC ● May 25, 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
Chevron shares were among the big gainers on Monday as investors gauged the impact of U.S. actions against Venezuela, including the capture of Nicolás Maduro.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
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
Once he had his foot in the door as an intern, success became an obsession, with bonuses becoming "a way of gauging how wonderfully successful a human being I was".
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The British social attitude survey, carried out by the National Centre for Social Research, has been gauging public opinion since 1983.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
But there’s also been a slight shift back toward gauging the room for rate cuts.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
Kingsley looks at me, gauging if I’ve grasped the heartbreak of the moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Lazlo squinted across the distance, gauging the blocks’ position relative to the great seraph overhead.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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