single digits

noun

chiefly US
: a number or percentage that is 9 or less
They won the game by single digits.
The state's unemployment rate is in the single digits.

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High single digits looks to be the sweet spot for Phoenician Scheme. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 15 May 2025 By the 2000s and 2010s, inflation rates were maintained in the low single digits, fostering price stability and growing investor confidence. Alejandro Antonio Chafuen, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025 While 51 percent support deporting at least some, nearly all back the removal of violent criminals, but support drops to single digits for deporting those married to U.S. citizens or brought to the U.S. as children. Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025 The percentage of women of color in the director’s chair (5.7% in 2024) has doubled in the last decade (2.5% in 2015), but the figure is still in the single digits. Angelique Jackson, Variety, 12 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for single digits

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“Single digits.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/single%20digits. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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