fraction

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Energy Information Administration jet-fuel production figures show output at a two-year record and only a fraction below the all-time high hit in July 2024.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

Doctors must administer high doses of Eisai/Biogen’s Leqembi and Lilly’s Kisunla, because only a fraction of 1% of the infused antibodies reach the amyloid plaque that chokes brain cells in Alzheimer’s.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

During that half-century, he added, “the fraction of men without jobs of any sort in the broad twenty-to-sixty-four group went from 10 percent of the total to almost 22 percent.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

It lends vegetable-heavy dishes some of the savory satisfaction we often associate with long-cooked meats or all-afternoon braises, but at a fraction of the cost and effort.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

But they amounted to only a tiny fraction of Chicago’s blacks, and their ranks were slow to grow.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield