fraction
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IEs backed by the California Nurses Assn. and California Environmental Voters spent $450,000 supporting her; a fraction of Hernandez’s $9 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
They contain only a small fraction of the stars found in larger galaxies, yet dark matter dominates their total mass.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
Gutierrez raised just a fraction of Mealer’s $2.8 million haul over the midterm cycle, as of mid-October, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
But it is still a fraction of the 344,000 bikes sold during Harley’s peak year of 2006.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 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
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He travels whenever he can to velodromes and wind tunnels for the drudgery of fine details, all in pursuit of fractions of a second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
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
Tokenization allows investors to own fractions of an asset, rather than the whole thing, and blockchain hosting — theoretically, at least — enables payment, settlement, change of ownership and custody on a digital ledger.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
Copernicus Programme, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich measures sea surface height across the world's oceans every 10 days with precision down to fractions of an inch.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026
When I came to school in the middle of the year, my class was studying fractions.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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