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In Houston, the grassroots campaign of Democrat Leticia Gutierrez topped Army veteran and former investment banker Alex Mealer, despite being vastly outspent in a district that Trump won by 20 percentage points two years ago.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
A 0.25 percentage point rise would mean a £31 increase in monthly repayments for someone with a typical tracker home loan, according to calculations by banking trade body UK Finance.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
For the year, Kimberly-Clark backed a prior projection for a low single-digit percentage decline in adjusted earnings per share on a constant-currency basis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Oil futures plummeted $7.97, or 8.3% to $88.12 a barrel in New York, completing the largest three-session percentage retreat in almost five years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
They might actually improve the perceived quality of the pool of loans and increase the percentage that could be declared triple-A.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
When the freight market weakened in 2023, Uber Freight’s revenue fell by double-digit percentages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Trade policy tends to arrive in public dressed in abstraction: percentages, agreements, investigations, duties, markets.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Those percentages add up to about 6,600 transgender or nonbinary students enrolled out of a total of 301,000.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
As win percentages flashed up on screen, and sparklers lit up the dark backdrop as athletes posed with their trophies, athletics attempted to take its first steps in a brand new direction.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The trio developed what they called a Win Score, which was a rating system based on combining points and assists and rebounds and turnovers and shooting percentages in a complicated equation.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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