fraction
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This is only a fraction of what has happened.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
That level of concentration leaves Anthropic dependent on a small fraction of its paying customers to support its growth.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
"We find a total stellar mass of about 1.3 billion suns, and the black holes represent a significant fraction of that."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Only a fraction of the earlier models contain rare earths—20% of the turbines being replaced at the Highland facility have them—but they became commonplace in more-powerful turbines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
What math I was ever taught I learned doing the breakfast dishes and listening to Mother explain, over and over, what a fraction is or how to use negative numbers.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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
Our reporting shows how Wall Street is already pouncing on his comments in fractions of a second, swinging energy and industrial stocks before everyday investors can even refresh their feeds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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
The morning passed in a drone of vocabulary, fractions, and reading.
From "George" by Alex Gino
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