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percent

[per-sent] / pərˈsɛnt /


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Ninety percent of those particles were small enough to qualify as nanoplastics, which are small enough to cross the blood-brain barrier and be absorbed into human cells.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

The share of debt repayments as a percentage of government revenue had gone up from eight to 14 percent for low-income countries in recent years, the IMF chief said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Eighty percent of the people they asked agreed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Of the 69,000 students who applied last year, almost 80 percent were from out-of-state.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

A mortgage created in early 2005 might have a two-year “fixed” rate of 6 percent that, in 2007, would jump to 11 percent and provoke a wave of defaults.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

But we’ve had several percents on the mortgage rate in a short period of time,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2022

In Oklahoma, about 60 percents of patients are now from Texas.

From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2021

Based on your gut feeling, do you believe the percents accurately reflect the U.S. population for those individuals born since 1971?

From Textbooks ● Mar. 27, 2020

Audiences tend to agree: a full 91 percent of them liked “Wonder Woman,” according to Rotten Tomatoes, compared to 63 and 62 percents for “Batman v. Superman” and “Suicide Squad,” respectively.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 30, 2017

Wearing it in class when the teacher droned on about fractions and percents.

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies


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