percentage
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What’s more, the 166 state-funded Nikola vehicles represent a small percentage of the nearly 12,000 clean trucks and buses that the agency has helped deploy, the spokesperson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 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
In June, the Bank extended its climate change policy indefinitely, but dropped targets for the percentage of financing that must have climate-related impacts.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Daniel Sturridge has two fewer substitute goals then Welbeck but has scored a slightly higher percentage of his overall Premier League tally as a sub - 22%.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Finally, a higher percentage of the surviving candidates proved suitable for domestication on Eurasia than on the other continents.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
When the freight market weakened in 2023, Uber Freight’s revenue fell by double-digit percentages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
The on-base percentages, compared: .363 for the Brewers, .263 for the Dodgers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Trade policy tends to arrive in public dressed in abstraction: percentages, agreements, investigations, duties, markets.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Likewise, double-check that percentages across all named beneficiaries add up to 100%, a common source of errors.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Now I am ten, learning to embroider circular stitches, to calculate fractions into percentages, to nurse my papaya tree to bear many fruits.
From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai
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