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This unfavorable futures-curve shape, plus the fund’s 0.9% fee, explains why the fund is up about 14% year to date, lagging behind copper futures by about 3 percentage points.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Trout was expected to benefit big-time from ABS because he has always had an excellent walk rate and boasts a .405 on-base percentage in 16 seasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Debt as a proportion of gross domestic product rose 1.5 percentage points to 119% in the second quarter, according to Insee, nearing pandemic highs and nearly double the European Union’s 60% target.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The older brother wants my husband to give up his share of the parents’ inheritance in exchange for a percentage of the older brother’s Roth IRA, currently worth about $300,000.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

California voters also came very close to banning the death penalty; the ballot initiative lost by only a couple of percentage points.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

There were plenty of times during McCullum's reign as Test coach where those long-odds bets were placed, while Fleming seems much more likely to play the percentages.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Those percentages add up to about 6,600 transgender or nonbinary students enrolled out of a total of 301,000.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Likewise, double-check that percentages across all named beneficiaries add up to 100%, a common source of errors.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

In a few instances, it determined that single-digit percentages of my writing were either A.I.-generated or A.I.-assisted.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

I came up with the idea of creating a skit to show how banks charged interest on loans, since we were studying how to figure percentages in Mr. Milo’s math class.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez