index

In a sentence

Six example sentences with index, each labelled with its topic.

• The cost-of-living index sits at 118 this year, meaning the same basket costs eighteen percent more than in the base year.

  Economics

• The air quality index climbed past 150 for four days, and the schools moved every lesson indoors.

  Environment

• A single pain index from zero to ten lets two nurses on different shifts compare what the patient reported.

  Medicine

• The stock index closed at 4,200, up two percent, and every pension fund tracking it rose by the same amount.

  Finance

• A body mass index above thirty is the usual cutoff in these studies, though it says nothing about muscle.

  Fitness

• The league's efficiency index folds points, rebounds, and turnovers into one number so fans can compare a center with a guard.

  Basketball

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More Academic words

• transmit
• explicitly
• coordinated
• undertaking
• dictate
• sanction
• ultimately
• overlapping
• technically
• revolutionary
• structural
• reinforced