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to put (someone or something) on a list
indexed all the books in the library by category
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Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
Qualcomm also kept indexes in check after falling 3.7%.
—Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
Christie Wilcox, science.org, 27 Dec. 2024
Documents indexed in Azure AI Foundry can be used in Copilot Studio as knowledge sources for agents.
—Janakiram Msv, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
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Noun
Capitalize on high interest rates: Best current CD rates
Around 9:50 AM ET, the broad S&P 500 index was up 0.22%, or 13.57 points, at 6,097.14; the blue-chip Dow rose 0.07%, or 31.34 points, to 44,778.97; and the tech-laden Nasdaq edged up 0.25%, or 48.81 points, to 19,840.80.
—Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025
Qualcomm also kept indexes in check after falling 3.7%.
—Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
Verb
But such journals have struggled to attract global visibility, such as being indexed in the Web of Science database.
—Christie Wilcox, science.org, 27 Dec. 2024
Documents indexed in Azure AI Foundry can be used in Copilot Studio as knowledge sources for agents.
—Janakiram Msv, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
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The underlying inflation indicators exceeded 10 percent by the end of 2024, which is certainly an intolerably high level in our view.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
15 Feb. 2025
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The studies published Thursday are significant in quantifying key public health indicators, Gemmill said.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Emilia Pérez, Netflix’s musical-thriller about a Mexican drug cartel leader (played by Gascón) who transitions into a woman, led this year’s Academy Awards nominations list with 13, the most ever for a film predominantly in a non-English language.—
Jack Smart,
People.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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Before the home was officially listed for sale, it was purchased last month in an off-market deal.—
Ray Parisi,
CNBC,
7 Feb. 2025
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What will really move the needle for all of us is systemic changes.—
Carolyn L. Todd,
SELF,
5 Feb. 2025
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Meanwhile, an undeniable truth remains: economic power moves the needle more than any initiative ever will.—
John Hope Bryant,
TIME,
5 Feb. 2025
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The firm recorded revenue of $186.8 million, far below the consensus forecast of $362.5 million.—
Sean Conlon,
CNBC,
11 Feb. 2025
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What To Know China, home to 1.4 billion people, recorded just 6.1 million marriages last year, a 20.5 percent drop from 2023 and part of a decade-long decline, new data from the Ministry of Civil Affairs shows.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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The Stars, who advanced to the Western Conference Finals each of the last two seasons, entered Saturday in second place in the Central Division standings.—
Curtis Pashelka,
The Mercury News,
9 Feb. 2025
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The 29-year-old entered Saturday ranked in the top 10 among NBA qualifiers in a slew of advanced metrics, including fifth in net rating and true shooting percentage and eighth in assist-to-turnover ratio and offensive rebounding percentage.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
9 Feb. 2025
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Tracking what was being abruptly proposed and voted on was a two-person operation, with my colleague David Zahniser and me splitting the work of snapping photos of the motions, cataloging them in numerical order and quickly reading through them.—
Tony Barboza,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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Language Barriers During the first half of the 20th century, most linguists were concerned with cataloging the world’s languages.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Jan. 2025
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The Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development is stiffing American businesses on hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid bills for work that has already been done, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.—
Ellen Knickmeyer,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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But as questions swirled around the February 2022 allegations of mishandling of records by Trump, Bloomberg News reporter Jason Leopold filed a FOIA request for six categories of documents.—
Jack Date,
ABC News,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Index.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/index. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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