percentage
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The Boston Fed found that labor-productivity gains, and investments in new equipment and production processes, offset the tariff impact, leaving a net inflation contribution of just half a percentage point.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
Home-building gross margin percentage, before cost of sales, interest expense and land charges, was 14.6%, down from 17.3% in the prior-year’s third quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
But those last 0.4 percentage points are a nightmare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
It's a gap of 5.8 percentage points this year, down from 6.2 last year and 9.5 in 2017, when it was at its widest this century.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Finally, a higher percentage of the surviving candidates proved suitable for domestication on Eurasia than on the other continents.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
In a few instances, it determined that single-digit percentages of my writing were either A.I.-generated or A.I.-assisted.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Colburn acknowledges that it might at first seem "a little ridiculous" that the researchers are aiming for losses that can be described by percentages over kilometers.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Grade boundaries vary from year to year and the exact percentages for 2026 won't be published until results day.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
“What are the percentages of me talking versus them talking?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Understanding fractions, and decimals, and percentages, and even geometry—all that was practical.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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