set by

Idioms  

1. Put aside for future use, as in She had shelves and shelves of cans set by for some imagined food emergency. [Late 1500s] Also see set aside, def. 1; set store by.

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Mortgage rates are tied to the 10-year Treasury yield rather than the shorter-term federal funds rate set by the Fed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

They get anchored to the diesel price, and the diesel price is set by whoever controls the water.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

It marked the Dodgers’ 14th straight playoff berth, tying a record set by the Atlanta Braves from 1991 to 2005.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Like Altman and Hassabis, he believes that rules set by the industry itself would be insufficient.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

The limits were not set by their language but by their priorities, by their sense of what was negotiable and what was not.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton