fraction
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The data show many Hamptons-bound flights operated by companies such as Flexjet traveling at around 1,000 feet, a fraction of the average cruising altitudes they advertise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
It’s still just a fraction of an $18.4-billion spending plan this year — which is balanced against $16.8 billion in revenue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Romantic comedy Premature is out in cinemas next Friday, despite a microscopic budget that is the fraction of Hollywood productions like Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Nepal, a largely rural nation of 30 million people, contributes a fraction of global greenhouse gas emissions compared to industrialised nations.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
“Will you truly try to fight me? A child of the Old Gods? After managing to survive a fraction of what the Eloko had to offer?”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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
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
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
Next is math, fractions, which is a little more difficult.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
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