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Multifamily occupancy reached 91% in early 2025, 6 percentage points above its pre-pandemic level in 2019, even as thousands of units were added over the intervening years,
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
Investors expect the US Federal Reserve to lift interest rates by at least a quarter percentage point next month to try to rein in stubborn inflation.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
The company also projected core gross margins between 42% and 44%, a boost of one percentage point.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
For each qualifying payment, the companies are paid a collection fee that’s a percentage of the payment, but qualifying rehabilitation payments can be as low as $5.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
When the random sample selected contains one thousand people, the theoretical 95 percent confidence interval for estimating the percentage who favor candidate X or dog food Y is about plus or minus 3 percent.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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These percentages represent relative differences between groups rather than the absolute probability that an individual woman will develop breast cancer.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
But within the county there are large variations, with the South Shropshire constituency having one of the highest percentages of homes without mains gas across the UK, at 53%.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
“I think a lot of advisers misread the percentages and the message that goes with them,” Goldie said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Those percentages add up to about 6,600 transgender or nonbinary students enrolled out of a total of 301,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
Search after search about lung transplants and lung-function percentages, new combinations and phrasing but always the same idea.
From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott
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