fraction

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It took months of pressure before our PBM relented and allowed us to distribute an identical drug at a fraction of the cost.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

Now a little more than 500 people remain, a fraction of the 2,000 who were here before 2023.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Crucially, DeepSeek is estimated to have cost a fraction of the amount it took to create American LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

This accounts for a small fraction of all searches.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

By October 1940, they began to sift through the concentrated bacterial detritus, painstakingly separating each chemical component, and testing each fraction for its capacity to transmit genetic information.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee