gauge
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It is used to gauge opinion outside of the referees' own echo chamber, and away from the headlines.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
As refiners chase profits, a better way to gauge the oil shock’s impact in America right now is through the price of gas and other oil products.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
In other words, the bottleneck in supplies will likely show up in refined products — providing a better gauge of demand destruction from the Iran war than another sharp move higher in crude, they said.
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
In a side-street off Red Square I gauge public reaction.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
I looked back to gauge the progress of our pursuers, and whether they followed—and ’twas then I saw that Pomp had fallen behind the rest of us, cut off.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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