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 indicatorsAnalysts looked at 41 indicators, including the cost of flights, number of attracts, and average price of a meal for two people.—Dan Raby, CBS News, 13 May 2026 That in itself has a clear effect, even if other indicators don’t shift right away.—Greg Toppo, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026 The Upright Project continuously seeks to improve the accuracy of its indicators by using the best available information and the best available statistical methods for integrating information from different sources.—Time Staff, Time, 12 May 2026 But there are some indicators that darker days are around the corner.—John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 May 2026 Strategy , the largest bitcoin treasury company in the world, has seen a significant rebound over the past month associated with promising upticks in long-term indicators like the monthly MACD.—Katie Stockton, CNBC, 11 May 2026 The machine operates with 200 qubits, and Chinese state media reported that key indicators, including the lifetime and reliability of its qubits, have already reached what researchers described as world-class levels.—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 10 May 2026 The main dial shows the day, date, and month, plus a moon phase display with a chronograph totalizer inside, day/night and leap year indicators, and even an indicator for the equation of time.—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 9 May 2026 However, if recent debates are any indicators, this one could also become a showdown among the Democrat candidates calling out each other.—Paris Barraza, USA Today, 7 May 2026
Glossy, scale-like needles remain green all winter long.
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Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
17 May 2026
An Oregon family alleged in a $100 million lawsuit that their 18-year-old son died from an infection after doctors at a Corvallis hospital did not remove pine needles and debris from his wound before stitching it up.