1.   Moving averages can be used to smooth time series.

2.   A four-point grade-point average was used in assigning grades.

3.   Figures for the put-call ratio can bounce around sharply from day to day, which is why technical analysts use moving averages to smooth out the data.

4.   Ikoma used to use the weighted average of office floor spaces to figure out its average, but now uses the average of total buildings surveyed.

5.   Now it proposes to follow federal practice and use the average of all wages paid in a region.

6.   That average will be used to calculate the payoff.

7.   The Dow average is used by millions of people worldwide as a barometer for the U.S. stock market.

8.   We used the average of the two scores.