fraction
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Tesla declined a fraction, after falling 3% on Tuesday, with Elon Musk’s massive SpaceX initial public offering just around the corner.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 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
It lends vegetable-heavy dishes some of the savory satisfaction we often associate with long-cooked meats or all-afternoon braises, but at a fraction of the cost and effort.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
Each society and each individual usually explore only a tiny fraction of their horizon of possibilities.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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