percentage
Example Sentences
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By contrast, if the 1929 retiree took out this same percentage, he or she would have had a $105,000 account balance in inflation-adjusted dollars after the final withdrawal.
From Barron's • Apr. 19, 2026
Arteta's record in April is not great as Arsenal manager and he has a win percentage of just 42% from Premier League games.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
O’Rourke lost the race by 2.5 percentage points.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
I know that percentage because I’m reading “The Disappearing Spoon” as an ebook, which has become my preferred format for these purposes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
As suspicious as this looks, a high winning percentage alone isn’t enough to prove that a match is rigged.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
Vocabulary lists containing percentage
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 3
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