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percentage

[per-sen-tij] / pərˈsɛn tɪdʒ /


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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

Oracle’s shares fell 11% to $179.42 after its earnings report, marking its largest percentage decrease since January.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

Policy rates are nearly 1.5 percentage points lower in the eurozone than in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

They rounded up not just thousands but hundreds of thousands of consumers all across North America, and in head-to-head blind taste tests, New Coke beat Pepsi by 6 to 8 percentage points.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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