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noun

variants or indices
plural of index
as in indicators
an arrow-shaped piece on a dial or scale for registering information the index on the thermometer dropped below zero

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verb

present tense third-person singular of index
as in lists
to put (someone or something) on a list indexed all the books in the library by category

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Recent Examples of indexes
Noun
Stocks fell in early trading Tuesday before steadying mid-morning, to trade flat across the major indexes. — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 10 Nov. 2026 The company also won placements on stock indexes for businesses that meet certain environmental, social and governance criteria, attracting sustainability-minded investors. — Alex Cuadros, ProPublica, 10 Nov. 2026 On Friday, as major Asian markets tracked a sell-off on Wall Street overnight, India's benchmark indexes bucked the trend to trade higher. — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2026 European indexes, which aren’t tilted as heavily toward technology stocks, also retreated modestly. — Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2026 Wall Street cheered the Blue Wave that put Democrats in control of both the Senate and House, with major market indexes and media stocks posting gains Wednesday morning after the midterm elections. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 4 Nov. 2026 The major indexes in Europe and Asia were up across the board this morning (with the sole exception of Japan’s Nikkei). — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2026 Investor reaction was muted, with the three major indexes remaining essentially flat after the Fed's announcement. — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
Verb
The Nasdaq 100 and the Dow Industrials Both indexes high new highs Wednesday. — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 28 May 2026 The ratio worth tracking is confirmed to suspected, currently about 1 in 15, which indexes how quickly the lab system is catching up to the field. — John Drake, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026 Instead of the open web, the platform indexes a library of about 500 million documents, including premium business content such as SEC filings, earnings transcripts, and expert research. — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026 The video indexes temporal compression—not historical eventfulness or developmental logic but monotonous repetition, endurance without transformation. — Anel Rakhimzhanova, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026 That’s a footprint that intentionally indexes heavily on Western Europe, which has wealthier markets even if it might be further removed from the continent’s more ardent basketball markets. — Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indexes
  1. indicators
  2. lists
  3. needles
  4. records
  5. enters
  6. schedules
  7. files
  8. catalogs
Noun
  • Finally, the report concludes that some financial institutions failed to act on indicators of human trafficking and immigration fraud, enabling Epstein's activities.
    — Ava Berger, NPR, 11 Nov. 2026
  • The battery also features LED indicators and its own USB-C charging port.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of indicators
Verb
  • Sign Up for Our Free Daily Newsletter The Guinness Book of World Records lists Ivan Smalyukh as the inventor of the most transparent material known.
    — Matthew von Hippel, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Bary also lists stocks that have continued to rise in price after Berkshire cut its stakes, with Apple being the worst offender.
    — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of lists
Noun
  • The short, prickly needles make junipers unattractive to deer, unlike, for example, deer-magnet arborvitaes.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2026
  • While published literature on the math of literally looking for needles in actual stacks of hay are thin on the ground, the principles of such a search lie in an area of math called probabilities.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of needles
Verb
  • Social Security numbers are matched with Social Security Administration records.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
  • It was filed three days later, according to Texas Ethics Commission records.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of records
Verb
  • But when Taylor Swift enters the conversation, that means there’s discourse about it too.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Smith enters the Buckeyes' home game against Oregon with 3-to-1 odds.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of enters
Verb
  • Some lawyers have tried to find their clients through an ICE program that schedules legal calls, but only a small percentage of detention centers use it, the lawsuit says.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2026
  • As a workaround, some lawyers have tried to find their clients through an ICE program that schedules legal calls, but only a small percentage of detention centers use it, the lawsuit says.
    — Ryan J. Foley, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of schedules
Verb
  • The former San Francisco supervisor wants to pursue legislation to prevent insurance companies from raising the rates or dropping the coverage of a policyholder who files a claim.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Correspondence files that document how a company responded at the moments that mattered most.
    — Amanda Turcotte, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of files
Verb
  • Any time there is the potential for further punishment, a report catalogs what happened, if there was a penalty called, the players involved, any disciplinary history, the aggressor's next game and video clips of the incident.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The beginning of the novel catalogs his traumas, searching for an all-encompassing origin story that might explain his delinquency.
    — Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of catalogs

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