percentage
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She says serious accidents are a "very small percentage".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The yield on the two-year Treasury declined 0.027 percentage point to 4.762%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
You get real advice on budgeting, paying down debt, and building savings without being pushed toward products you don’t need or paying a percentage on money you haven’t accumulated yet.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Trout was expected to benefit big-time from ABS because he has always had an excellent walk rate and boasts a .405 on-base percentage in 16 seasons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Thus, we might say that a 95 percent confidence interval for the percentage of voters favoring candidate X is 45 percent plus or minus 6 percent.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Trade policy tends to arrive in public dressed in abstraction: percentages, agreements, investigations, duties, markets.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
“I think a lot of advisers misread the percentages and the message that goes with them,” Goldie said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Those percentages add up to about 6,600 transgender or nonbinary students enrolled out of a total of 301,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
But another time trial on stage 18 could give him the chance for victory when hot favourite and joint most successful Tour de France winner Pogacar, 27, could be riding for percentages.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
I whipped up some more mixtures, experimenting with the percentages.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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