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percentage

[per-sen-tij] / pərˈsɛn tɪdʒ /


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Only 25% of Angelenos viewed him favorably, the poll found, in line with the percentage of the vote he ended up receiving.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

This percentage applies at the scale of individual mountain ranges and does not necessarily affect every glacier equally within those regions.

From Science Daily • Jun. 12, 2026

—U.S. futures were up after all three major indexes closed higher on Thursday and marking their largest one-day percentage gain since early April.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Morgan chalked up that steep decline to triple-digit percentage gains to start 2026 and worries about delays to the adoption of co-packaged optics —a technology that would replace copper wiring in data centers.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

Garrick Bailey, a leading anthropologist on Osage culture, said to me, “If Hale had told what he knew, a high percentage of the county’s leading citizens would have been in prison.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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