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Recent Examples of index
Noun
The 247 recruiting compositive index asserted UM had the vastly more talented roster.—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 5 Nov. 2025 The Lyst index is a quarterly ranking of fashion’s hottest brands and products.—Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
Zandi and deRitis argue the most direct remedy is to index the exclusion caps to reflect either inflation or actual home price growth.—Preston Fore, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2025 It was also recently revealed that up to 300,000 chats between users and the Grok chatbot had been indexed and made publicly visible in the same way.—Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for index
The off-year elections of Virginia and New Jersey are often not indicators of the following midterms.
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Julia Manchester,
The Hill,
6 Nov. 2025
Legendary investor Warren Buffett’s favorite market indicator, which compares a measure of the total value of the US stock market to the value of US economic growth, is also flashing a warning sign.
Austin Reaves, who also missed Monday’s game, is listed as questionable, while LeBron James, Maxi Kleber, Adou Thiero, and Gabe Vincent remain out.
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Cole Sullivan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
In 2004, Mary Cheney worked on her father's reelection campaign, according to a bio on Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy website, which listed her as an advisory board member.
When its army entered Gaza in late 1956, the Israeli government argued that national security interests required it to control the Strip.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
Visitors entering the museum are greeted by the colossal 3,200-year-old, 11-meter-tall statue of King Ramses II, which stood for decades in central Cairo's Ramses Square before being relocated to its new home near the museum in 2006.
The whales are identified by unique natural markings and catalogued in a collection the center maintains of more than 2 million photos dating back to 1935.
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N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
Three years later, in 2023, the task force produced a 1,060-page report that catalogued California’s discriminatory treatment of Black people after its 1850 admission as a state that officially prohibited slavery.
An expert for the defense in the $40 million lawsuit filed by a former Virginia elementary school teacher shot by a 6-year-old student with a history of disciplinary problems testified Monday the assistant principal did not breach professional standards or act with indifference.
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