- present participle of read.
reading
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A reading of 100 corresponds to the options market pricing roughly six basis points of daily movement in Treasury yields over the following month.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
A former NFL player named John Urschel decided to do some light reading this week, and for him that meant leafing through the latest math papers from OpenAI about topics such as the Riemann hypothesis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The initiative comes after the launch of the government's National Year of Reading 2026, with reading enjoyment rising this year after four years in decline, according to an annual survey from the National Literary Trust.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Marvel Unlimited members who sign up for Marvel Comics will be able to import their current library and reading history into the new app once it’s launched.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Hadn’t Jesus—and here my reading became intent indeed—hadn’t Jesus been defeated as utterly and unarguably as our little group and our small plans had been?
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The results may not necessarily extend to readings collected with other types of blood pressure equipment.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
Jack Allen-Reynolds, an economist at Capital Economics, said the inflation readings "suggest that the indirect effects of higher energy costs are beginning to feed through" to the wider economy.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
RBC also detects that during major drawdowns, confidence and sentiment gauges move sharply with readings like the National Federation of Independent Business and the American Association of Individual Investors dropping sharply.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Building on earlier work, including a program at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Stanford programmed the monitors with time delays and conditional triggers so that some monitor readings didn’t automatically set off an alarm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
When it came time for Pagliuca to take the afternoon readings, the wind was so strong that he tied a rope around his waist and had two colleagues take hold of the other end.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
