percentage
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Schools are trying to maximize their yield rate, or the percentage of admitted students who enroll.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
A significant percentage of the party's activists, and the members who choose the party's leaders, live in the capital.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
In 2024, America’s Best Racing reached out to see if he wanted to participate in a program that would give public figures a percentage of equity in a racehorse in exchange for exposure.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
Stocks with these characteristics have outperformed a universe of the top 700 market cap stocks without these characteristics by a cumulative 500 percentage points since 1999.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
He put aside my percentage and gave the rest to Pasqual when he came to work at night.
From "Lawn Boy" by Gary Paulsen
Vocabulary lists containing percentage
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 3
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Perfect Ten: Dec, Cent, Mille
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The New SAT: The Language of the Test
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