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Standard deviation is a measure of how spread out data points are around the average.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

This week, oil came in at slightly over $104 a barrel, the highest it’s been since July, and on Thursday, diesel hit an average of $6 a gallon — for the first time ever.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

They said the S&P 500 generated an average three-month return of negative-2% at the start of seven hiking cycles over the last few decades.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Patients on the highest dose in a big study lost an average of 28.3% of their body weight, Eli Lilly reported in June.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

“My balloon’s a compact model. It’ll only hold two people of average size.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Tarlov, 42, has been a sturdy liberal counterweight at “The Five,” which averages 3.5 million viewers daily, according to Nielsen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

He said the current diesel spike is not exceptionally high when put in the context of inflation-adjusted averages over the last two decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

He averages a league goal every 129 minutes in 2026 - which includes his first senior hat-trick against Burnley in April.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Flock’s data indicate their cameras helped locate more than 10,000 missing persons in 2025 alone, which averages about 27 people a day.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Dear Diary, Ever since Ms. Gruwell announced that the Freedom Writers with the top thirty-five grade point averages would win computers when we graduated, I started getting As and Bs on my report card.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

Last year the program averaged 9.1 million weekly viewers, making it the most watched non-sports program in prime time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

“During the Mora years, we averaged around 70,000 a game. I think that can easily return in spite of the presence of the NFL.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

To get annual figures, Bending Spoons said it averaged four quarterly percentages, a method that can smooth out big swings in churn, rather than dividing one full-year revenue number by another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

They reported that the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.76%.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

I averaged the links that were hanging and used that to help me come up with twenty-six.

From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea

The benefit is fairly modest, averaging about $9,000 per child annually, in a country where childcare costs can exceed $30,000 a year.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

Diesel, the fuel of choice for heavy-duty commercial trucks, is averaging $5.62 a gallon nationwide, compared with an average of $5.30 a gallon just a month ago, according to AAA.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026

Even the NBA Finals ratings during the COVID-19 pandemic were at an all-time low, averaging just 7.45 million viewers for the Lakers’ six-game, bubble series win over the Miami Heat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Graduates in England have among the highest levels of student debt in the developed world, with balances averaging over $70,000 when repayment starts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

A year earlier, however, these students did even worse, averaging just 4.1 on their fifth- grade tests.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt