statistic
Example Sentences
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“There’s a statistic about men receiving flowers for the first time at their funerals, and I think we have changed that,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times
As a student who falls into the uninvolved statistic, I’m not disengaged.
That, in turn, prompted Bale to look at foster care, leading him to a startling statistic: Roughly 75% of siblings entering foster care in the U.S. end up being separated and having to live apart.
From MarketWatch
He said the CSJ preferred the material deprivation statistic, which measures whether people lack what are commonly held to be necessities.
From BBC
Yet, somehow, this problematic statistic and all that it symbolizes doesn’t even register.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
