median
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Participants were followed for a median of 8.9 years, and health records were available to test for associations with more than 1,000 disease outcomes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Office for National Statistics data estimated the median monthly pay in the UK in August was £2,657 - or £31,884 a year, external.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Of the county’s 100 cases, 73 were men, 27 were women, and the median patient age was 64.5, according to a Sept. 18 epidemiology report.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
That was the median sale price in June for a single-family home in the U.S. with two bedrooms or fewer, according to Zillow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Hamilton kept plowing through the water and when the rain lightened he veered up the side of the median and screeched back onto the highway and kept going.
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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
Then there are the tall medians - or road dividers, as they are locally called.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2025
Everything fascinated him— street signs, traffic, traffic lights, speed bumps, speed limits, medians, fast-food restaurants, police cars, fire trucks.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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