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They’ve also considered the fact that with residency or citizenship they could retire or Portugal or their son could attend a university in Europe, where tuition amounts to a fraction of U.S. costs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

The country is only using a fraction of the solar capacity it has deployed because it lacks enough battery storage to manage the fluctuations inherent in solar power, the Cuban energy minister said in April.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

The company was founded just two years ago but already rivals leading manufacturers such as Europe's Ducati and Japanese giants Yamaha and Honda with a bike retailing for a fraction of their prices.

From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026

Experts believe arson accounts for only a small fraction of fires.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

My strategy was to aim at treble 20 so carefully that I'd end up missing a fraction and getting a 1 or 5.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Tokenization allows investors to own fractions of an asset, rather than the whole thing, and blockchain hosting — theoretically, at least — enables payment, settlement, change of ownership and custody on a digital ledger.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 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

Another five publications followed, including a 2025 textbook on continued fractions published by Springer.

From Slate ● May 2, 2026

To be sure, weird things happen on ice and snow when athletes are ripping down mountains and carving around sharp turns—and glory is decided by fractions of a second.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

Figure 1.39: Note lengths work just like fractions in arithmetic: two half notes or four quarter notes last the same amount of time as one whole note.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones