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central

[sen-truhl] / ˈsɛn trəl /


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However, an adverse or severe scenario could see this fall to 0.6% or 0.4%, respectively, according to the central bank.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

This happened on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank's spring meetings, which brought finance ministers, central bankers and other leaders to Washington.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

The central bank primarily uses the price index for personal consumption expenditures, or PCE, which tracks the prices American consumers pay for goods and services, to evaluate inflation.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

Kuram Malik, 40, an assistant manager at a supermarket in a central area of the capital, said his shop was no longer able to bring fresh goods from outside the capital.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

The captain was stationed with eight American soldiers in Haiti’s rural central plateau, charged with keeping the peace for 150,000 Haitians, mostly peasants, spread over a thousand square miles.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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