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Both sides' refusal to apply pressure when the opposition attempted to tease them out is best illustrated by a statistic that looks to quantify how intensely a team presses.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

Consider a statistic known as the “R-squared,” which measures the degree to which a given stock-market indicator is able to predict or explain the market’s future return.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026

The total fertility rate of 1.57 is a snapshot statistic, not a portrait of any particular woman’s life, she says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

Three years later, its year-end report flaunts another statistic: Vinyl record sales surpassed $1 billion in 2025 — the first time since 1983.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Another example of a technically correct yet misleading statistic is the fact that heart disease and cancer are the two leading killers of Americans.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Dave, 45, admits it's unromantic but says, given the statistics around divorce, he wants to be pragmatic.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

The data on which image recognition and generative models are based rely on statistics and probability to arbitrate the truth.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

The gains people are getting from AI use at home are unlikely to show up in standard economic statistics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Robotaxis are a key area of interest for Tesla investors, and the company offered up a number of updated statistics on Wednesday, including that it has logged more than 380,000 miles of unsupervised robotaxi trips.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

Extrapolation of the statistics of double stars which are greatly disparate in mass suggests that almost all single stars like the Sun should have planetary companions.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan