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In contrast, a bond fund is an open-ended portfolio that continuously buys and sells bonds to maintain a target duration, which is a measure of a bond’s sensitivity to interest rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

That number is far below what backers had sought, but industry advocates welcomed the measure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Remaining performance obligations, a measure of contracted future revenue not yet recognized, grew 34% year over year to $21.2 billion, beating Wall Street’s consensus expectations of $20.91 billion.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

Authorities have now introduced the high school mobile phone ban, even though teachers' unions warn that the measure might be hard to implement quickly.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Everything has seemed so out of control, so overwhelming, that having some measure of peace … would be nice.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

The measures were among a slew of bills approved during the 2026 legislative session to deal with the continuing aftermath of the devastating 2025 Los Angeles area fires.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

But given past underreporting, it will also require "decisive corrective measures to support the authorities' request for a waiver regarding the misreporting of data", the IMF said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

ISM Chair Susan Spence said U.S. manufacturing activity lost ground in key measures, including new orders, backlog and imports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Ethan Radford said details were still being finalised but the council would shortly announce a series of one-off measures "designed to alleviate pressure on individuals and businesses."

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

Most striking, perhaps, is the overwhelming evidence that implicit bias measures are disassociated from explicit bias measures.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

The war with Iran began at the end of February, when officials and investors assumed the disruption would be measured in weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

This was measured by survey questions about students’ feelings of happiness, excitement, sadness and frustration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Whether a location was a garden, meadow, cultivated field or lawn explained differences in decomposition better than most of the soil characteristics the researchers measured.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

While prices and borrowing costs climbed, hard work, as measured in paychecks, couldn’t keep up.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

The amplitude of a sound is a particular number, usually measured in decibels, but dynamics are relative; an orchestra playing fortissimo sounds much louder than a single violin playing fortissimo.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Weather over both fires remains dry, with humidity measuring only 16% to 19%, according to Roger Gass, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in the Bay Area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

The issue of measuring AI’s ROI has been a persistent challenge for IT leaders, even nearly four years into the AI boom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

He recommends deciding exactly what you want to achieve, measuring the space and buying everything you need before you start.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

That becomes more difficult when focusing on nine different indicators with distinct ways of measuring overvaluation.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026

For a long time it was hoped that measuring compass deviation and dip would enable sailors to establish their coordinates.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton