peg
noun
a pin of wood or other material driven or fitted into something, as to fasten parts together, to hang things on, to make fast a rope or string on, to stop a hole, or to mark some point.
has pegged
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present perfectof peg (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Then there’s free school lunches, which the government has pegged at up to $4.69 per day for about 30 million children receiving meals in school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
Bloomstran has pegged Berkshire’s intrinsic value at above the stock price in recent years.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
Wall Street has pegged December-quarter sales at 450,000 units, a 9% decline compared with a year earlier.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 2, 2025
Radiocarbon dating has pegged the Egyptian chronology to within a couple hundred years; scientists have tried to use ancient observations of known astronomical events, such as star and planet alignments, to narrow dates further.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 13, 2023
The Christian Science Monitor has pegged the cost of each month in the first three months of offensive against the separatists at $500 million.
From Russian Roulette: Russia's Economy in Putin's Era by Samuel Vaknin
