median
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With bankruptcies doubling in the past year, median farm income is trending downward, and roughly 90% of family-owned farms and ranches rely on alternative sources of income to survive.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
Everyone otherwise received current standard care, and researchers followed them for a median of almost four years.
From Science Daily • May 25, 2026
It couldn’t explain whether it wanted to count the mean or the median or the margin or error or something else.
From Slate • May 23, 2026
One month after the swear-ins, the median gain for the S&P 500 was 3.2%, but the index was down a median of 1.4% three months later.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
“Your median student in those studies comes from a family making over a hundred thousand dollars, and that’s in nineteen ninety dollars,” Cohen says.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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