fraction
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More than 1,000 people, designing the car, monitoring it, servicing it, as well as driving it, in search of advantages worth a fraction of a second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The droplet survives for only a tiny fraction of a second before expanding and converting into other particles.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
The decision means the parents who spent years fighting Jones in court will receive a fraction of what the Texas jury believed his conduct warranted.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
Taalas can price a million tokens to a fraction of a cent for as long as its model is wanted.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Maybe a fraction of what I was trying to say, Angie caught, because she does give me a half smile.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
Major rivers including the Rhine, the Danube and the Loire have been reduced to fractions of their normal flows, leaving behind cracked earth and dead fish, while hammering economies.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Another five publications followed, including a 2025 textbook on continued fractions published by Springer.
From Slate ● May 2, 2026
Markets are about to enter March, and yet only twice — by small fractions — has the S&P 500 closed outside its tight 6,800-to-7,000 range in 2026.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026
To be sure, weird things happen on ice and snow when athletes are ripping down mountains and carving around sharp turns—and glory is decided by fractions of a second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
In the Babylonian system—with zero in it—it’s easy to write fractions.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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