fraction
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The roughly 34,500 defectors to reach the South since 1998 are a fraction of North Korea's 26.6 million people, UN figures show, but the plunging number of escapes has consequences.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
This streamlined process allows estates like your mother’s to be settled more quickly and at a fraction of the cost of traditional probate.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
“Experts warn that prediction markets are prone to encourage market manipulation and insider trading; and early research indicates that profits are highly concentrated in a small fraction of users, while the majority lose money.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
But choristers believe the event would be fortunate to get a fraction of those numbers, given the costs involved.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
For the tiniest fraction of a second, I’m still halfway between sleep and waking.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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
Earlier experiments could continue for only fractions of a second because longer operation would cause the combustion chambers to melt.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 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
He was glad for it, but probably not as much as I was that he needed me and I could actually help him figure out his fractions.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
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Pi Day Vocabulary
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Give Me a Break!: Fract and Frag
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Arithmetic
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