high and low
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This measure distinguished individuals with high and low Charlson Comorbidity Index scores, a widely used metric that estimates how additional health conditions affect a person's risk of death.
From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2026
The high and low points of a valuation ratio tell you more about the stock market’s true value or likely future returns than indicators that are closer to the middle of the range.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026
Australia's fire danger ratings scale has four levels, with catastrophic being the highest level, followed by extreme, high and low.
From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026
They mix high and low, layer and experiment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025
She’d started keeping a weather journal, where she wrote down the daily high and low temperatures, the cloud formations, the wind speeds, the amount of sunshine and rain.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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