percentage
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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
A recent Bloomberg Economics study found that consumer prices increase nearly 2 percentage points in Indonesia and the Philippines after an El Niño-influenced drought.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
The rise in long-term yields was milder, with the 10-year yield rising 0.05 percentage point.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Tongue's average pace across the series is actually higher than Archer, though Archer has bowled a higher percentage of his deliveries over 90mph.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Garrick Bailey, a leading anthropologist on Osage culture, said to me, “If Hale had told what he knew, a high percentage of the county’s leading citizens would have been in prison.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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
Elementary schools by and large do manage to teach the basic algorithms for multiplication and division, addition and subtraction, as well as methods for handling fractions, decimals, and percentages.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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