fraction
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The company was founded just two years ago but already rivals leading manufacturers such as Europe's Ducati and Japanese giants Yamaha and Honda with a bike retailing for a fraction of their prices.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Pushing back against speculation regarding his political loyalties, Ellison pledged “independence” for his newsrooms and argued that the combined entity would control only a fraction of the streaming market.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
Amateur astronomers observing in darkness would also have had little realistic chance of seeing the flash, given that it would have lasted a fraction of a second.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
That is only a fraction of the heap of self-deception we’ve been amassing these past five months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Only a small fraction of their library was carted away, about six boxes of materials in all.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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
Another five publications followed, including a 2025 textbook on continued fractions published by Springer.
From Slate ● May 2, 2026
More than once, she missed the top of the podium by fractions of a second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
The surprise Saturday was how close Plutarch was to the lead, tracking the equally surprising pacesetter Intrepido through solid fractions of 47.65 for a half-mile and 1:11.35 for six furlongs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026
I decided to change the fractions to sixes.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
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Pi Day Vocabulary
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Give Me a Break!: Fract and Frag
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Arithmetic
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