threshold
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The 10-year Treasury yield crossed a key 5% threshold on Monday, nudging the average 30-year mortgage rate upward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
"However, the evidential threshold was not met for the alternate offence," they added.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Oil prices remained above the $100 threshold on Monday — and strategists recommend seizing the opportunity to buy stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Exceeding such a threshold is not equivalent to demonstrating that a drink causes DNA damage or disease.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Ma herded them back toward the threshold, swatting at their clothes.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
A family with children can spend over 60% of their pretax income on just these five basic needs, even if their costs are below these affordability thresholds.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Investors widely viewed that as an effort to contain borrowing costs since it came at a time when longer-term yields were approaching key thresholds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
"The supervisory board has asked the executive board to develop a model for an evolved decision-making and group structure," the statement said, adding that approval thresholds would be "adjusted accordingly" to align with standard practice.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Using predefined thresholds, the system correctly classified nearly 90 percent of participants before they underwent cardiac catheterization.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
He girded himself and knew this would be a conflict that would extend the thresholds of his fear of his father and his cowardice before the plowman who had granted him life.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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