How to Use misery index in a Sentence

misery index

noun

• Is this the misery index for the Big Ten or the Red Wings?
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 7 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Things have changed in our economy since the misery index was first invented in the 1970s.
  — Peter Cohan, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• Case in point: One team that has made frequent appearances in the weekly misery index is Duke.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2021
• 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
• For now, the I-4 misery index is still 27% off pre-pandemic levels.
  — Adelaide Chen, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2020
• But his personal misery index reached a new plateau during a weekend of record-setting heat.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• The misery index is an informal measure of the economy that combines the inflation and unemployment rates.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 14 July 2023
• 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
• The Fed probably thinks the misery index too amateurish a measure on which to base monetary policy.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
• Today, under President Joe Biden, the misery index is a breathtakingly low 6.7.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Economists agree the misery index is not a particularly sophisticated measure.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 8 Feb. 2022
• The misery index, when calculated by Elliott’s superhuman standards, is astronomical.
  — Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024