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percentage

[per-sen-tij] / pərˈsɛn tɪdʒ /


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What’s more, the 166 state-funded Nikola vehicles represent a small percentage of the nearly 12,000 clean trucks and buses that the agency has helped deploy, the spokesperson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

The share of debt repayments as a percentage of government revenue had gone up from eight to 14 percent for low-income countries in recent years, the IMF chief said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Daniel Sturridge has two fewer substitute goals then Welbeck but has scored a slightly higher percentage of his overall Premier League tally as a sub - 22%.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

In June, the Bank extended its climate change policy indefinitely, but dropped targets for the percentage of financing that must have climate-related impacts.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

You can be sure that it would be advertised as providing relief in a “significant” percentage of cases, but the significance is only statistical.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

The on-base percentages, compared: .363 for the Brewers, .263 for the Dodgers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Trade policy tends to arrive in public dressed in abstraction: percentages, agreements, investigations, duties, markets.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

To get annual figures, Bending Spoons said it averaged four quarterly percentages, a method that can smooth out big swings in churn, rather than dividing one full-year revenue number by another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

My life revolves around an obsessive regimen and percentages, and given that I was just in surgery, the risk never seems to go down.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott


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