trend

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Prices excluding food and energy categories — the so-called core measure economists watch in an effort to better capture inflation’s underlying trend — rose 2.6%, slightly below forecasts for a 2.7% increase.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

That trend has settled down in the past 10 years, with the average being four runs.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

Satellite observations show that the planet is steadily getting brighter at night, but the trend is far from uniform.

From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2026

But there is another more long-term risk that investors should probably be paying attention to — one that could upend a decades-long trend of rising valuations, particularly for large-cap U.S. equities.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

To a greater extent than a human in a similar gathering, each rabbit, as he pursued his own fragment, was sensitive to the trend of the whole.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams