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Six example sentences with indicator, each labelled with its topic.
Housing starts remain the indicator economists watch first, because builders commit money long before shoppers do.
Economics
Resting heart rate is a cheap indicator of recovery, and the ward tracks it every morning at six.
Medicine
Lichen growing on city trees is a reliable indicator of clean air, and it vanished near the smelter.
Environment
Net rating is the indicator front offices trust most, since it captures both ends of the floor in one number.
Basketball
The yield curve is the indicator traders watch for recessions, since it has inverted before nearly every downturn.
Finance
Heart rate variability has become the indicator many coaches read each morning to decide whether an athlete trains hard or rests.
Fitness
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Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)
- Science Vocabulary List
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