fraction
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Analysts’ estimates of how much computing power Muse might require in the next couple of years range from a fraction of a gigawatt to several.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
That’s a small fraction of the $1.2 million that Americans think they’ll need to retire comfortably, according to Schroders, an asset-management firm.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
“I don’t know what fraction it is,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
He came under criticism for not voting on the motion which was passed by 1,022 votes to 813, a small fraction of the party's 230,000 members.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
At some point I went over his records with him, and he'd been selling things at a fraction of their worth and losing a lot of money.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
Researchers using different extraction techniques produced fractions with different structures and different levels of utilization by gut microbes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
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
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
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
Next is math, fractions, which is a little more difficult.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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