How to Use misery index in a Sentence
misery index
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Is this the misery index for the Big Ten or the Red Wings?
—Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 7 Nov. 2021
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Add in 13 combined turnovers, eight of them by the Spartans, to add to the misery index.
—Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2021
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Here's a look at the teams spiraling downward in the first week of March in the latest edition of the misery index.
—Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2021
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Winds from the northwest at 10 to 20 mph with higher gusts at times add to the cold weather misery index.
—Matt Rogers, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2017
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With the misery index approaching 22%, Carter spent two weeks at Camp David trying to make sense of it all.
—David Oshinsky, WSJ, 29 July 2022
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Things have changed in our economy since the misery index was first invented in the 1970s.
—Peter Cohan, Forbes, 17 May 2022
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Case in point: One team that has made frequent appearances in the weekly misery index is Duke.
—Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2021
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Four years later, Ronald Reagan hung the misery index, by then above 20 percent, around Carter’s neck.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2022
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For now, the I-4 misery index is still 27% off pre-pandemic levels.
—Adelaide Chen, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2020
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But his personal misery index reached a new plateau during a weekend of record-setting heat.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2021
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In contrast with that innocent, if boozy, summer and the fire pit of 2011, another memorable record-setting year, this time the misery index is dialed so much higher.
—Dallas News, 19 July 2022
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My version of the misery index is the sum of the year-end unemployment, inflation, and bank-lending rates, minus the annual percentage change in real GDP per capita.
—Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022
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The misery index is an informal measure of the economy that combines the inflation and unemployment rates.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 14 July 2023
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The misery index is elevated because of high inflation and will rise higher if the unemployment rate goes up before the consumer price index moves down.
—Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2022
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That original misery index was a simple sum of a nation’s annual inflation rate and its unemployment rate.
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 20 June 2021
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But what’s increasingly raising the misery index of this work is that the plan commission has become — by default and despite no policy-making powers — the city’s front line on the gentrification battlefield.
—Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2022
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Economists agree the misery index is not a particularly sophisticated measure.
—Chris Isidore, CNN, 8 Feb. 2022
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The misery index, when calculated by Elliott’s superhuman standards, is astronomical.
—Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2017
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