as in needle
an arrow-shaped piece on a dial or scale for registering information you should refill when the indicator on the gas gauge shows that there's only a quarter of a tank left

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Recent Examples of indicator But, the unpredictable market—ridden with tariffs, DEI rollbacks, and recession beauty indicators—put surmounting pressure on brands like Ami Colé. Essence, 17 July 2025 One is that while existing computer vision systems are certainly capable of identifying people visible in aerial imagery, the visual indicators of a flood victim are often very different compared with those for a lost hiker or fugitive. Robin R. Murphy, The Conversation, 16 July 2025 The post provides technical indicators SonicWall customers can use to determine if they have been targeted or hacked. Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 16 July 2025 But Burke, with the mining association, pointed to two recent positive indicators for the industry: more U.S. coal getting exported overseas and a surge in the amount of electricity generated by burning coal during the first four months of 2025 compared with the same period last year. Sydney Lake, Fortune, 8 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for indicator
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Noun
  • McIntosh and Sonus faber McIntosh, famous for its retro-look meters, which feature blue screens and physical needles.
    Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 27 July 2025
  • Another strong possibility is that there isn’t a needle in the haystack to begin with.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
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  • However, the core index, which strips out food and energy due to their higher levels of volatility, came in slightly below expectations at 2.9% versus 3.0% expected.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 19 July 2025
  • For the orange enthusiasts, note the lollipop seconds hand, and indices at 12, 3, 6, and 9 have all been given a pop of color.
    Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 19 July 2025
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  • On the evening of July 3rd, as the sun went down over Kerrville, Texas, a small city of some twenty-five thousand people and the seat of Kerr County, the water in the Guadalupe River was just four inches deep, according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s stream gauge there.
    John Seabrook, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
  • According to Zillow's Home Value Index – a monthly gauge of house prices and housing market trends – national home prices rose 0.2 percent year-over-year in June, a marked deceleration from the 3.2 percent increase seen in the previous 12 months.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025

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“Indicator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indicator. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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