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average

[av-er-ij, av-rij] / ˈæv ər ɪdʒ, ˈæv rɪdʒ /




VERB
obtain numerical mean
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Summer 2025 was the hottest since records began in 1898 - with average temperatures nationwide 2.36C above average.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

From September 2008 to March 2009, they went from being willing to invest an average of 56% in stocks to only 46.5%.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

That compares with an average of 28 times for other AI chip companies.

From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026

Gross domestic product grew at an average of 2.3% a quarter during the three-year span.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

In other words, the average forager had wider, deeper and more varied knowledge of her immediate surroundings than most of her modern descendants.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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