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The reimbursement rate for a comprehensive eye exam is about $47, said Kristine Shultz, association executive director.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

Once in the late 1950s, while building machinery to record sounds a heart makes, he accidentally used the wrong resistor, but its electrical pulse rate was steady, like a heartbeat.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

The growth rate of most African countries continues to be slower than before the Covid pandemic, it noted.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

Younger post-main sequence stars had a higher rate of 0.35%, similar to stars still on the main sequence.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

Interest rate swaps—in which one party swaps a floating rate of interest for another party’s fixed rate of interest—was one such innovation.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis