fraction
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Evan Jones gave it a go early on from lane one - touching the wall a fraction in front of his Scotland team-mate after the fly - but then Scott uncorked the good stuff.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The fraction is smaller in the House, where hundreds of women have served.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
Many big investment firms have developed automated systems to monitor Truth Social and take action—often within a fraction of a second, traders said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The markets are absorbing a fraction of that available capital.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
“Living in a small town like ours, it’s hard to imagine that many people. Even Denver’s population is only a fraction of that.”
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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
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
Titan's slightly elongated orbit can disturb inner moons when their orbital periods become simple fractions of Titan's.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026
You may have also noticed that the note lengths sound like fractions in arithmetic.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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Arithmetic
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