statistic
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That was the highest share since the National Association of Realtors began tracking the statistic in 2003, the trade group said in its annual Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
What that statistic misses, though, is a lot less hiring of young people in white-collar roles such as software development since ChatGPT launched.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
To appreciate the strength of its track record in this regard, consider a statistic known as the r-squared.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
This was Verstappen's first pole position of the year - a remarkable statistic for someone who came within two points of winning a fifth world title last year after one of the all-time great fightbacks.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
That one out of eleven women will develop breast cancer is a much cited statistic.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
An additional 21% are no-party-preference voters, according to statistics from the California secretary of state’s office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
Weekly prison population statistics show that the early release programme is having an impact - for now - on the population crisis inside jails.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Nearly one in four young people in Senegal was unemployed in the second quarter of 2026, according to the country's statistics agency.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
This helped lift overall industrial production by 0.7 percent for the month, said statistics agency Destatis, above analyst expectations of a far smaller increase.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
She liked baseball, but Jack had the statistics of every player memorized, and that just was not good conversation in her opinion.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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