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percent

[per-sent] / pərˈsɛnt /


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The Middle East accounts for just under 10 percent of the watch market.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Goldman shares, which had risen more than 11 percent between late March and last Friday, fell 3.5 percent in late-morning trading.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

Among other sacrifices, it would have restricted their uranium enrichment to 1.5 percent purity.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026

Only around one percent of people in northern Europe have the necessary mutation.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s judged the pools of triple-B-rated bonds to have a correlation of around 30 percent, which did not mean anything like what it sounds.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis




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