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The U.S. economy added an above-forecast 162,000 jobs last month — yet Americans were spending an average of six months unemployed, the data showed.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

“Mark, he’s incredibly comfortable around people. Not just his peers, but average fans. Because he considers himself an average fan.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Households spend an average of about $1,700 annually on their pets, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

That exceeded expectations and is higher than the 31,000 average in the last 12 months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

All over Japan, people began to realize that this was not an average event.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

He said the current diesel spike is not exceptionally high when put in the context of inflation-adjusted averages over the last two decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Its vaccination rates also fall below statewide averages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

To facilitate an apples-to-apples comparison, I converted the chart’s returns into daily averages.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

Miles averages 20 points and 6.2 assists per game, ranking among the top 10 in the league for both statistics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Sir Lancelot—the name on everybody’s lips: the best knight in the world, top of the averages, even above Tristram: the courtly, the merciful, the ugly, the invincible: and he had sent them all to her.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Another daily read of mortgage rates by Mortgage News Daily, which runs a daily survey of lenders, said the 30-year rate averaged 6.91% as of Tuesday, Sept. 2.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

Error rates climbed during the pandemic and averaged 10.6% across all states last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

He averaged 7.1 yards per carry and 17.8 yards on 13 receptions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

With mostly second- and third-stringers in for USC, San José State averaged 8.4 yards per play in the second half.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

By the time Terman was finished, he had sorted through the records of some 250,000 elementary and high school students, and identified 1,470 children whose IQs averaged over 140 and ranged as high as 200.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Instead, he gradually narrowed his feet, now averaging 19 inches apart rather than 31.5 inches apart from April and May.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The year before Tennessee hired Golesh, in 2020, they’d been a 3-7 team averaging 21.5 points per game.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Even the NBA Finals ratings during the COVID-19 pandemic were at an all-time low, averaging just 7.45 million viewers for the Lakers’ six-game, bubble series win over the Miami Heat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Yet it is the world's fastest-growing real-time payment system,, external used by more than 140 million people and 14 million companies, with more than four billion transactions a month averaging about $88 each.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

I had 400 plants, probably averaging 5 potatoes each; 2000 taters.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir