gauge
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The survey’s gauge of income expectations dove 18.1 points to minus 24.4, the report showed, reflecting the burden of rebounding inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026
Unsurprisingly, such moves have pushed the SOX’s 14-day relative-strength index, or RSI — a momentum gauge for which any figure above 70 is considered to be in overbought territory — to 81.98.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026
The U.S. dollar index—a gauge measuring the dollar’s value against its key rivals—rose 2.41% in March, when uncertainty about the war was at its peak.
From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026
The consultation in the UK will hear from academics who have been studying the effect of Australia's ban and it will also gauge opinion on less severe restrictions.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
Another sort of instrument lay beside it—a twelve- gauge pump-action shotgun, brand-new, blue-barreled, and with a sportsman’s scene of pheasants in flight etched along the stock.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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