percentage
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The Federal Reserve’s measure of consumer debt-service payments as percentage of disposable personal income stood at 5.4% in the fourth quarter of last year.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026
Only 25% of Angelenos viewed him favorably, the poll found, in line with the percentage of the vote he ended up receiving.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026
This percentage applies at the scale of individual mountain ranges and does not necessarily affect every glacier equally within those regions.
From Science Daily • Jun. 12, 2026
—U.S. futures were up after all three major indexes closed higher on Thursday and marking their largest one-day percentage gain since early April.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
No money was made available for treating MDR, yet drug-resistant strains were infecting an increasing percentage of the prison population.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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