percentage
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Some companies applied higher deductibles to specific risks such as hurricane and hail, and changed certain deductibles from a dollar value to a percentage of the value of a home.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
Bass defeated Caruso by nearly 10 percentage points.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026
All season long, the Spurs were one of the NBA’s most dominant teams, trailing only the now-vanquished Thunder in both win percentage and point differential.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
Idacorp stock has risen 21% since May 2025, outperforming the Vanguard Utilities ETF by 11 percentage points.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
You can be sure that it would be advertised as providing relief in a “significant” percentage of cases, but the significance is only statistical.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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