percentage
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FactSet says actual earnings have exceeded estimates for 37 of the past 40 quarters to the tune of around seven percentage points.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
She will receive the higher of the two options available: her own retirement benefit or a percentage of yours.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
The UK's downgrade of half a percentage point is the largest of the world's advanced economies, with the UK now earmarked to have middling growth this year compared to its peers.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
Latson took a career-low 10.3 shots per game but shot a career best field-goal percentage.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
But again, although most of the seeds would germinate after one year, after two years the percentage would decline, and after three or four they would not do well at all.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
Vocabulary lists containing percentage
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 3
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