fraction
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The parking lot is filled with Teslas and BMWs, but the few thousand people working at the site are a tiny fraction of Foshan’s total workforce.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
Only a fraction are left now, depleted by a logging company before the state acquired the forest in the 1940s.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026
That figure is a fraction of the total number of people who have expressed interest in joining the military.
From BBC • May 9, 2026
Each is projected to generate close to $2 billion in free cash this year, a fraction of what they’re capable of, but pretty good for a bad year.
From Barron's • May 8, 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
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Arithmetic
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