fraction
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This streamlined process allows estates like your mother’s to be settled more quickly and at a fraction of the cost of traditional probate.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
Instead, that wealth is heavily concentrated among a tiny fraction of young people who already have at least $2 million in financial assets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
But choristers believe the event would be fortunate to get a fraction of those numbers, given the costs involved.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Digital-creator deals potentially increase viewing at a fraction of the cost of premium productions like “Bridgerton.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
At some point I went over his records with him, and he'd been selling things at a fraction of their worth and losing a lot of money.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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
Hedge funds employ the best AI researchers available, spending hundreds of millions of dollars annually to extract fractions of a percentage point of edge.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
Another five publications followed, including a 2025 textbook on continued fractions published by Springer.
From Slate ● May 2, 2026
Titan's slightly elongated orbit can disturb inner moons when their orbital periods become simple fractions of Titan's.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026
Now I am ten, learning to embroider circular stitches, to calculate fractions into percentages, to nurse my papaya tree to bear many fruits.
From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai
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Give Me a Break!: Fract and Frag
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Arithmetic
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