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Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 15 Feb. 2026
The Social Security Administration bases its COLA each year on the average annual increases in a subset of the overall consumer price index called the index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, from July through September.
—Medora Lee, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 21 Jan. 2026
The school’s thousands of library volumes were all filed and indexed, but the portable library wasn’t scheduled to arrive until three weeks before classes started.
—Roger Simmons, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2026
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Noun
For example, California’s consumer confidence index hit a five-year low in January.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 15 Feb. 2026
The Social Security Administration bases its COLA each year on the average annual increases in a subset of the overall consumer price index called the index for urban wage earners and clerical workers, from July through September.
—Medora Lee, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
Verb
Interest rates for bank loans and credit lines used in the financing of the company are also indexed to sustainability target.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 21 Jan. 2026
The school’s thousands of library volumes were all filed and indexed, but the portable library wasn’t scheduled to arrive until three weeks before classes started.
—Roger Simmons, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for index
Noun
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That was the third-highest mark in Major League Baseball, trailing only the Yankees and the Dodgers, and every indicator suggests that number will go up on the 2025 books.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Shortness of breath is another important indicator.—
Jennifer Shanker,
Flow Space,
17 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Cesarina Calderon, no address listed.—
Colleen Cronin,
Boston Herald,
17 Feb. 2026
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Ferguson is listed as the sole director of the companies, all of which applied in recent days to be struck off the UK’s official Companies House register, where virtually all businesses must file information such as directors’ details and annual returns.—
Billy Stockwell,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Norman Powell is solid and a nice scorer, but not a real needle mover.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Feb. 2026
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That may be why her rather moody performance here had so much to live up to and didn’t move the needle for me.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
16 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Another video recorded by straphangers aboard a train passing through the station shows the killer shove Dawodu, who collapses to the platform covered in blood.—
Rocco Parascandola,
New York Daily News,
13 Feb. 2026
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Winner of three consecutive Eastern Conference rookie of the month awards to begin his career, Knueppel is the fastest player to record 100 career 3-pointers made, accomplishing the feat in 29 games.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Feb. 2026
Verb
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If an agency is allowed to give itself the right to enter people's homes, the consequences could go far beyond immigration enforcement.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Feb. 2026
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After graduating from Syracuse University, Silverblatt entered a training program at S&P in downtown Manhattan in the late 1970s.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
16 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Wiseman positioned his cameras in the midst of institutions, as unobtrusively as possible, to catalogue the routines of daily life.—
Duane Byrge,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Feb. 2026
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Harvey swears by her collection of Sears catalogs for dating specific props.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Wasserman’s appearance in the Epstein files document dump, despite the consensual nature of his exchanges with Maxwell, has set off a firestorm among some of the clients represented by Wasserman’s sports, marketing and entertainment units.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2026
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Many portions of the replies from the prospective applicants were redacted as confidential or proprietary information in the copies of forms and documents the district provided to the news organization, which first filed a request with the district in December but only received material Thursday.—
Skyler Swisher,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2026
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