fraction
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Some wells forced offline may only ever recover a fraction of their prior volume or become economically unviable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The not-for-profit Community Table, in Mablethorpe, buys surplus stock from suppliers and products close to or past their best before date, which allows them to receive the produce at a fraction of the cost.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Naturally, these actual facts got a fraction of the coverage of the initial false claims.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
Certain ozone-depleting chemicals can still be used as feedstocks to produce other materials, based on the belief that only a tiny fraction, about 0.5 percent, would escape into the atmosphere.
From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026
He knew the reaction period down to a fraction of a second, the correct reaction period; there should have been none.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Vocabulary lists containing fraction
Pi Day Vocabulary
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Give Me a Break!: Fract and Frag
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Arithmetic
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