median
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Relative poverty means a household has disposable income after housing costs below 60% of the UK median, adjusted for family size and composition.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
They had pledged enough cash for 25 million children born between 2016 and 2024, in zip codes with median family income below $150,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
A life-size bronze statue of California’s first Kentucky Derby winner was stolen last week from a road median in north Sacramento.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
From such lows, the median rally into year-end has been 10%, Rubner observes.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The front tires bounced over a low concrete median, jostling passengers and rattling windows.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
In 2025, the medians were 168 for Black students and 172 for white students.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
That could include policies like forced medians, distribution guidelines or being transparent about grades given.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
Overall survival also differed significantly, with medians of 42 months and 14 months, respectively.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2025
As former Fed economist Claudia Sahm has written, “The medians in the SEP aren’t the Fed forecast and never will be.”
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2025
And indeed, if Nailer scrutinized the jungle carefully, he could make out the boulevards that had been, before trees punctured their medians and encroached.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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