fifth
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One of the first major restaurants to embrace DoorDash, the company gets about a fifth of its sales off premises.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Combined with pledges by its seven co-founders to give away 80 percent of their equity and a program matching employees’ donations, Anthropic says roughly a fifth of its shares will be dedicated to public-benefit purposes.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
Hamilton and Russell start the race fifth and sixth.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
I had my best shot of the week on the fifth hole, missing a hole-in-one by 6 inches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
I materialized in the back row of Ford’s Theatre for the fifth time this year just as the play, Our American Cousin, began.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
According to research for the UK Parliament, external, about four fifths of the oil and gas from British-controlled parts of the North Sea had been extracted by 2024.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
At meets, Mara racked up prize ribbons: lots of third-places, fourths, fifths, and sixths, the occasional second, the very rare first.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2024
Caucus members account for three fifths of the lower house and half of the senate seats.
From Reuters ● Sep. 27, 2023
The song has easy rhythms, said Glass, but it’s more challenging to sing because of the wider vocal range and the way the melody line leaps by fifths and octaves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
As mentioned above, Pythagorean tuning made sense in medieval times, when music was dominated by fifths.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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