fraction
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“I don’t know what fraction it is,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
The country's per capita GDP - around $667 in 2024, according to the UN - is a small fraction of South Korea's $36,227.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Human translators rely on A.I. tools; they have to, just to meet even a fraction of demand, Federici said.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
A small fraction of those assets, around $7 million, are currently exposed to Anthropic, the Comptroller's office told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Grains made up only a small fraction of the human diet before the Agricultural Revolution.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
He travels whenever he can to velodromes and wind tunnels for the drudgery of fine details, all in pursuit of fractions of a second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Major rivers including the Rhine, the Danube and the Loire have been reduced to fractions of their normal flows, leaving behind cracked earth and dead fish, while hammering economies.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Copernicus Programme, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich measures sea surface height across the world's oceans every 10 days with precision down to fractions of an inch.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026
Hedge funds employ the best AI researchers available, spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually to extract fractions of a percentage point of edge.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
You may have also noticed that the note lengths sound like fractions in arithmetic.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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