nominal
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The costs of the pots, racks and soil are nominal individually but add up fast at the scale he now operates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
The East-West pipeline had a nominal capacity for up to 7 million barrels of oil a day, with roughly 2 million going to Saudi’s domestic market.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
The gap between the yield on a nominal 10-year Treasury bond and the yield over inflation paid on 10-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities is around 2.4%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
"Psychologically, a Fed hiking cycle rarely does risk assets many favours, particularly if both nominal and real Treasury yields are breaking to new highs and equity markets continue to find sellers into rallies."
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Radar observations of Chryse were made for the first time—because of the geometry of Earth and Mars—only a few weeks before the nominal landing date.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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