fraction
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Yet what index fund investors see in their portfolios will be quite different, as the largest-ever IPO will represent only a fraction of the company’s total shares currently owned by private investors.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
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
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
Alibhai said on the defendant's own account he had more than 1,800 customers and was providing a "subscription and hardware" package at about £120 a year, a fraction of what the legitimate broadcasters were charging.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
The black ball missed the corner pocket by a fraction of an inch, spinning back into the center.
From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
Vocabulary lists containing fraction
Pi Day Vocabulary
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Arithmetic
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