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A similar percentage reported feeling happy they had frozen their eggs, even if they had not returned to use them.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026
Many generic drugmakers agreed to hold off launching in the U.S. until 2022, then sell only up to limited quantities, starting at a low single-digit percentage of the market and rising to 30% by 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Though there have been stories about kids cutting through the pouches or duping administrators by putting in decoy phones, those troublemakers amount to only a small percentage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose 0.050 percentage point, to 4.721%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
During the 1988-89 school year, Odessa High also had a greater percentage of students than Permian pass the state- mandated test in math and English that was required for a diploma.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
But another time trial on stage 18 could give him the chance for victory when hot favourite and joint most successful Tour de France winner Pogacar, 27, could be riding for percentages.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
In a few instances, it determined that single-digit percentages of my writing were either A.I.-generated or A.I.-assisted.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Colburn acknowledges that it might at first seem "a little ridiculous" that the researchers are aiming for losses that can be described by percentages over kilometers.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
This week she highlighted 10 areas in the U.S. with the highest percentages of home sellers asking for less than they paid for the properties.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Unfortunately, they don’t do as effective a job in teaching when to add or subtract, when to multiply or divide, or how to convert from fractions to decimals or percentages.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
Vocabulary lists containing percentage
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