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Sixty-one percent of Americans would oppose a data center being built where they live, a late August poll by the Economist and YouGov found.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Plug-in hybrids have had a lackluster reception in the U.S. so far, never accounting for more than a percent or two of the new-car market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
The percentage of chronically absent students fell from 36 percent in 2024 to 20 percent by the end of the 2025–26 school year.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
The proportion of each galaxy's total lifetime spent in the remnant phase ranges from about 4 to 83 percent.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
I can get only about seventy-five percent of my hair into an elastic at any given time, and messing around with bobby pins is increasing the frizz.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
In Oklahoma, about 60 percents of patients are now from Texas.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
We write the percents as decimals in the chart.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
"Fifty percent of them want him to, and 50 percent don't want him to. I try to play both 50 percents."
From Reuters ● Jan. 27, 2017
And when you add up all those weeks he’s had to re-do the loan, the yearly interest rate could add up to hundreds of percents.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 7, 2016
Wearing it in class when the teacher droned on about fractions and percents.
From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies
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