statistic

Example Sentences

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If I became another statistic on those charts I was obsessively tracking, what would I be proud of and what would I regret?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

“There’s a statistic about men receiving flowers for the first time at their funerals, and I think we have changed that,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

That, in turn, prompted Bale to look at foster care, leading him to a startling statistic: Roughly 75% of siblings entering foster care in the U.S. end up being separated and having to live apart.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 19, 2026

He said the CSJ preferred the material deprivation statistic, which measures whether people lack what are commonly held to be necessities.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

And knowing that my mother in there was a statistic that didn’t have to be, that existed because of a society’s failure, hypocrisy, greed, and lack of mercy and compassion.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey