hundredth
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San Jacinto Valley Academy sophomore Kaaliyah Lacy clocked 13.44 to win the 100 hurdles, one hundredth off her state-leading time that earned her the Division 4 section title one week ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
"I am going to be the one hundredth woman to walk on the Moon in my auntie's living room," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
The other is that, as long as fund companies are vying for every extra hundredth of a percentage point of return, investors will end up winners.
From Barron's ● Apr. 1, 2026
Their slow pace is compensated by a high-speed weapon: a tongue that can accelerate from zero to 60 miles per hour in about one hundredth of a second.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2025
Cat wanted to turn the conversation back to her grandparents, but it was impossible to derail the hundredth round of Sharks: Friends or Enemies.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
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Combe is the defending champion, having edged Hanne Thomsen of Santa Rosa Montgomery by five hundredths of a second in the finals last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
Collins demonstrated why she is one of the Southland’s top sprinters, taking first in the 200 in 23.25 — 30 hundredths of a second off the meet record set in 2002 by L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026
While Singapore-based Sharpa already offers a convincing humanoid table tennis robot with a reaction time of just two hundredths of a second, there is no equivalent on the market for tennis.
From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026
Their overall scores are within a few hundredths of a percentage point of each other.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
Rather, what we know is encoded in cells called neurons— microscopic electrochemical switching elements, typically a few hundredths of a millimeter across.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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