portion
Example Sentences
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“If we were to leave, we would lose a portion of our buy-in — about $80,000.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
My sister thinks Medicaid will take the house my mom and I own together, claiming half of its value every year and effectively reducing my portion of ownership to nothing.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
That’s a significant portion of the offering, and a departure from most IPOs, which typically allocate only about 5% to 10% of shares to individual investors, according to Fidelity’s website.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
That leaves a significant portion of the journey unexplained by natural processes alone.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
Often he had felt torn by a tug-of-war between duty and honor—a tension, he thought, that might account for “a good portion of my psychic difficulties over the years.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Vocabulary lists containing portion
The ACT: The Language of the Test, List 1
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Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" (1863)
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 3
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