fraction
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The not-for-profit Community Table, in Mablethorpe, buys surplus stock from suppliers and products close to or past their best before date, which allows them to receive the produce at a fraction of the cost.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Certain ozone-depleting chemicals can still be used as feedstocks to produce other materials, based on the belief that only a tiny fraction, about 0.5 percent, would escape into the atmosphere.
From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026
That’s a fraction of the size of most “big box” operations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
SpaceX is growing fast, but is expected to generate only a fraction of that number this year.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
The Louvre values the Mona Lisa at far less than another Leonardo, his Virgin of the Rocks, and both are valued at a fraction of the works of Raphael.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Vocabulary lists containing fraction
Pi Day Vocabulary
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Give Me a Break!: Fract and Frag
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Arithmetic
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