margin
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Known as Proposition 42, the measure was leading by a 2.6-point margin with an estimated 96% of votes counted following the Nov. 3 election, AP said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
The poll surveyed 2,787 registered voters in California from Oct. 19-25, online in English and Spanish, and has an estimated margin of error of about 2.5 percentage points in either direction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
Analysts are expecting $274.9 million in core revenue with a 42% core gross margin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
The margin was so close that the race could not be called until more than a week after election day, as local officials counted every single ballot that had arrived before the deadline.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
Racing for home, Joe and the reconstituted first boat beat the second boat by a decisive margin.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
The government has also privatised electricity distribution, but distribution companies have struggled to invest in infrastructure, including local transformers and metering systems, partly because of low profit margins.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
For example, a mature software company may have very wide profit margins, while an industry requiring heavy capital investment, such as industrial equipment, will likely have lower profit margins.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
That would improve profit margins for CoreWeave, which currently leases the bulk of the data center space it operates in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
These three companies in the S&P 500 would have made the list with high growth rates and improved profit margins, but were excluded because of the requirement for positive and improved free cash flow:
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
Her most favorites were marked up with hearts and exclamation marks and other reading notes in the margins, so she would never part with those.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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