How to Use market basket in a Sentence
market basket
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Cooking from what was in the market basket was the easy part for Mamba.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 1 Mar. 2023
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The open handles are great for transportation—this could even be your go-to farmer’s market basket.
—Liv Birdsall, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2020
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With a Provençal market basket, Coastal Grandmother is good to go.
—Rory Satran, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2022
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Even with the increase, this market basket works out to about $6.50 per person for a Thanksgiving feast.
—Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2022
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The market basket assumes a family eats more than 5 pounds of beans a week, for example.
—Mike Dorning, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2021
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The market basket also includes pork chops, cheese, pork and beans, potato chips, ice cream, and strawberries.
—Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 27 June 2023
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The consumer price index is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.
—Ivana Pino, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2023
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Other items include placemats, a bean jar, and a market basket perfectly designed to be slung over one arm.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2022
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This was the largest one-year increase since November 1990 for the index, which tracks price stickers on a market basket of everyday goods and services.
—Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2021
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The consumer price index -- a measure of the prices Americans pay for a market basket of everyday goods and services -- jumped 7% over the last 12 months, the Labor Department said Wednesday.
—Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2022
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The seven-story structure is a replica of the company’s popular medium market basket -- just 160 times as large.
—Susan Glaser, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2019
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Aldi’s prices were 44 percent lower than the all-store average for Checkbook’s full-market basket; Lidl’s were 36 percent lower.
—Kevin Brasler, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023
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The reappraisal culminates a yearslong campaign by anti-hunger advocates to reassess the market basket.
—Mike Dorning, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2021
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The instrument is an obscure U.S. Department of Agriculture shopping list used to determine food stamp benefits, known as the market basket.
—Mike Dorning, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2021
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Despite the objectively minor contribution of eggs to the consumer’s overall market basket, people are apparently highly alert to, and upset by, the price increase of about 10 cents per egg over the past year.
—George Calhoun, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
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Together, these components constitute a little more than half of the average market basket.
—David Wilcox, CNN, 25 Oct. 2022
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The consumer price index, which measures the prices consumers pay for a market basket of everyday goods and services, jumped 0.8% last month after rising 0.9% in October, the Department of Labor reported Friday.
—Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News, 10 Dec. 2021
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Instead, candidates receive a market basket full of ingredients and must design a menu using all of those ingredients that reflects their personal cooking style.
—Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 16 Oct. 2017
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