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an index showing the movement of share pricesSee Financial Times Industrial Ordinary Share Index, Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index

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Words nearby share index

shared ownership, share draft, shared resources, sharefarmer, shareholder, share index, share market, share-milker, sharent, share of voice, share option

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How to use share index in a sentence

Cosby conspiracy theorists share a perspective born of a long, pained history of American racism.
Phylicia Rashad and the Cult of Cosby Truthers|Stereo Williams|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
We have to share those feelings of concern that the people are feeling.
Mexico’s Priests Are Marked for Murder|Jason McGahan|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Mr. Bachner said it had been hard to introduce his work ethic and share his vision with the locals and his team.
The Photographer Who Gave Up Manhattan for Marrakech|Liza Foreman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Getting men to do their share of care and domestic work is a key overlooked strategy in reducing poverty.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Perhaps it always seems that way at the time, but surely we face our fair share right now.
In 2015, Let’s Try for More Compassion|Gene Robinson|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The foster-child remained behind to share the hut of the political exile.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
Rent, the share of the land-owner, offered to the classicist a rather peculiar case.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
Murat, who had earnestly begged to be allowed to share the Austrian campaign of 1809, was delighted to serve in person.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
It is almost unnecessary to add, that the porter had his share well paid, and that the fisherman got the full value for his prize.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
But Yung Pak was not allowed to share the pleasures and the trials of the boys in the public school.
Our Little Korean Cousin|H. Lee M. Pike