gauge

I’d follow a recipe to the letter and still end up squinting at the oven door, trying to gauge whether I’d accidentally created something leaden or gummy or wrong.

The stock market, after all, is a mechanism to gauge future expectations.

Give me a gauge any day — one less thing for me to overthink.

The current snowpack levels represent one of several metrics for gauging California’s water outlook.

The high-level competition the Clippers faced this week allowed them to gauge themselves against some of the NBA’s best teams.