average person

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Between 1990 and 2007, the average person was better off by roughly 2.5% per year.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2026

For the average person, MMA and UFC are now synonymous — the brand has achieved that kind of total market capture.

From Salon • Jun. 17, 2026

Ask the average person what homelessness looks like in America, and the answer invariably involves urban encampments—people with severe mental disabilities or serious addictions living in tents and squalor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

One of the challenges with the current screening recommendations is that the average person should start getting screened at age 45, for at least the next 30 years.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

By that time, the average person in England ate ninety pounds of sugar a year—and in the early twentieth century, that number kept rising.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson