median
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That’s an area reinforced by other support measures, including the 200-day moving average and the median historical pullback of roughly 7%.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Patients, many of whom are men who previously worked in industries such as shipbuilding, oil refining, and asbestos manufacturing, have a median survival of about 12 months.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
The median household income in the U.S. last year, according to the Census Bureau.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
“For savers with money sitting in savings accounts earning a median or average rate, some may be seeing their returns being chipped away,” Roske said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Fifty-six percent of the users were men, and the median age range for all users was twenty-one to thirty-five.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
That could include policies like forced medians, distribution guidelines or being transparent about grades given.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
Overall survival also differed significantly, with medians of 42 months and 14 months, respectively.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2025
As former Fed economist Claudia Sahm has written, “The medians in the SEP aren’t the Fed forecast and never will be.”
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2025
On high-speed roads, medians are supposed to gently separate traffic moving in the opposite direction.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2025
And indeed, if Nailer scrutinized the jungle carefully, he could make out the boulevards that had been, before trees punctured their medians and encroached.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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