fraction

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Now a little more than 500 people remain, a fraction of the 2,000 who were here before 2023.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Crucially, DeepSeek is estimated to have cost a fraction of the amount it took to create American LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

The agency found almost all reported crashes involved minor property damage with no injuries, occurring in a fraction of 1% of sessions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Although only a small fraction of schizophrenia patients carry mutations in grin2a, the researchers suggest that dysfunction in this circuit may represent a shared mechanism underlying cognitive impairments in some patients.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

“Push the screwdriver through the wire near the bottom,” he said, “and pry up,” We did, and the wire bent a fraction of an inch.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien