median
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Relative poverty means a household has disposable income after housing costs below 60% of the UK median, adjusted for family size and composition.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
A life-size bronze statue of California’s first Kentucky Derby winner was stolen last week from a road median in north Sacramento.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Listings there had a median cut of 4.2% off their initial asking price, compared with the group average of 5%.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Another youth-led group in that district, Maine Youth Power, started in 2021 to offer young Mainers clearer paths to engagement in a state with one of the highest median ages.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
The neighborhood’s median income was about $15,000 a year, well less than half the U.S. average.
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
Throngs of people precariously stand on the medians as high-speed traffic whizzes by.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2025
During my high school summers, I cut grass in parks and on the medians of highways, unloaded trucks, and walked beside road-paving equipment with a rake to smooth the hot asphalt along the curbs.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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