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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
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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
More than 45 percent of women worked outside the home during the war, producing ammunition, building ships and airplanes, driving trains, and nursing the wounded.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
“The growth in the West is relative to a smaller base than we’ve seen in the East — that’s why the percents are so high,” Mr. Humphreys said.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 21, 2023
In Oklahoma, about 60 percents of patients are now from Texas.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
But if you’re willing to pile enough of those 2 percents together over 20 years, they can turn into seven diamond rings.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 12, 2021
We write the percents as decimals in the chart.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
Wearing it in class when the teacher droned on about fractions and percents.
From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies
Vocabulary lists containing percent
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