median
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Levels.fyi data shows the median base salary for new software engineer offers was 4% to 17% higher than for current employees at the same level.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
The small device works by delivering electrical pulses to the median nerve at the wrist, which trials have shown can change the activity in the parts of the brain involved in movement control.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
The national median existing-home price in October rose 0.4% from a year earlier, to $416,700, NAR said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
The median down payment among first-time buyers is 9% this year, according to a report by the National Association of Realtors, or about $36,000 for a typical $400,000 home.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
She blabbed hysterically about Billy and the airplane crash, and then she put her car in gear and crossed the median divider, leaving her exhaust system behind.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Investors choose to focus on the medians of the policymaker forecasts.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
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
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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