statistic
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It has one of the highest rates of workplace deaths among developed countries, a grim statistic it has been trying to improve for decades.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Consider a statistic known as the “R-squared,” which measures the degree to which a given stock-market indicator is able to predict or explain the market’s future return.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
At first blush, his lifetime Wins Above Replacement of 0.3 would indicate that he’s little better than the fictional minor league “replacement player” to which MLB players are compared in calculating the statistic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
That statistic comes from the LAHSA, a city-county joint agency that sends trained volunteers into the streets each February to count the people living there.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
It was easy, sitting in my office in Washington, to think of Tariq Johnson as a statistic.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
The unexplained, silent changing of casualty statistics - for both the wounded and the dead - was criticised as undermining transparency.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
After all, it is £10,000 more than the median average earnings for full-time workers in the UK for an entire year, according to official statistics, external.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Robotaxis are a key area of interest for Tesla investors, and the company offered up a number of updated statistics on Wednesday, including that it has logged more than 380,000 miles of unsupervised robotaxi trips.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Last fall’s record-long government shutdown prevented it from publishing any inflation statistics at all in October, an unprecedented lapse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
This is why we keep statistics in sports, and why it makes sense to do a computer analysis of all the factors that go into diagnosing heart attacks.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
Vocabulary lists containing statistic
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