hundredth
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The other is that, as long as fund companies are vying for every extra hundredth of a percentage point of return, investors will end up winners.
From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026
Their slow pace is compensated by a high-speed weapon: a tongue that can accelerate from zero to 60 miles per hour in about one hundredth of a second.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2025
Servite won the boys 4x100 relay in 40.27, one hundredth of a second faster than its prelim time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2025
It saw him cross the line one hundredth of a second ahead of Australian Lachlan Kennedy, who was initially shown as the winner on the big screen in Nanjing, China.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2025
I lamented for the hundredth time the impossibility of creating stained-glass windows with blocks.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
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Combe is the defending champion, having edged Hanne Thomsen of Santa Rosa Montgomery by five hundredths of a second in the finals last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
A move up or down by tenths or even hundredths of a percentage point has the power to move markets and revise economic expectations.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Collins demonstrated why she is one of the Southland’s top sprinters, taking first in the 200 in 23.25 — 30 hundredths of a second off the meet record set in 2002 by L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026
The Olympics are an incredible showcase but also a pinhole sample—a once-every-four-years event in which glory and disaster can come down to hundredths of seconds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
Rather, what we know is encoded in cells called neurons— microscopic electrochemical switching elements, typically a few hundredths of a millimeter across.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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