as in criterion
something set up as an example against which others of the same type are compared
a legendary Broadway flop that has subsequently become the barometer by which failure in the theater is judged
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Recent Examples of barometer
The back-to-school season has been good and widely seen as a barometer for the holiday period.
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David Moin, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
The Fed will get to review two more important inflation barometers before its next policy meeting, the producer price index and consumer price index.
—Alex Veiga, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
The mammoth season opener — Miami’s first between two top-10 teams since 2004 — is an obvious barometer on where both teams stand, how close to back each is.
—Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
The daily chart of ALB shows an initial push above the 200-day moving average in July, although that breakout failed to sustain its gains above this long-term trend barometer.
—David Keller, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025
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David Moin, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
The Fed will get to review two more important inflation barometers before its next policy meeting, the producer price index and consumer price index.
—Alex Veiga, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
The mammoth season opener — Miami’s first between two top-10 teams since 2004 — is an obvious barometer on where both teams stand, how close to back each is.
—Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
The daily chart of ALB shows an initial push above the 200-day moving average in July, although that breakout failed to sustain its gains above this long-term trend barometer.
—David Keller, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for barometer
Noun
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To maintain comparability, the weights assigned to these criteria have been held constant.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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In ants, hair is one of the criteria that helps differentiate species.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Since many of Yiwu's products don't meet EU compliance standards, that limits how much businesses can sell to Europe, Monga said.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
17 Sep. 2025
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Roads, bridges, power grids, and water systems fueled industrialization and lifted living standards.—
Maurice Obeid,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The fund’s performance in the first seven months of the year — the most recent Boston Partners has made available on its performance — has comfortably outperformed that of the MSCI World Index, which its management team uses as a comparative benchmark index.—
Chloe Taylor,
CNBC,
17 Sep. 2025
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For Unitree, the G1 represents an attempt to rival the achievements of Boston Dynamics’ Atlas, long considered the benchmark for agile, dynamic humanoid robots.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Demand-side measures are the right approach.—
Joel Thayer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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In a 2013 survey of criminologists, public health scholars, and legal academics, an assault weapons ban was ranked the single most effective measure among 20 policy options for reducing mass shootings.—
John J. Donohue,
Time,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Barometer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barometer. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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