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Recent Examples of decimal
Unlike some scales that give a decimal reading for pounds, the Greater Goods scale features accuracy down to 0.1 ounces and provides measurements in pounds with ounces, decimal pounds, or kilograms.
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Laura Lu, Ms, Parents, 21 Mar. 2024
The closer that decimal is to one, the more compact the district is.
—Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2024
Of course, that doesn't make their mating calls, which can produce sounds as high as least 90 decimals, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, any more pleasant to the human year.
—USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2024
Body fat percentage readings from the QardioBase X were within decimals of those from the Omron, while the Wyze Scale X was generally off by a percentage point or two for this metric.
—PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2024
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Laura Lu, Ms, Parents, 21 Mar. 2024
The closer that decimal is to one, the more compact the district is.
—Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2024
Of course, that doesn't make their mating calls, which can produce sounds as high as least 90 decimals, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, any more pleasant to the human year.
—USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2024
Body fat percentage readings from the QardioBase X were within decimals of those from the Omron, while the Wyze Scale X was generally off by a percentage point or two for this metric.
—PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decimal
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Flossy’s virtual assistant, Fiona, significantly reduces operational expenses, performing 24/7 duties at a fraction of human staffing costs.—
Jaime Catmull,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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Amazon The Amazon Echo Dot (5th Gen) looks like the regular Echo, but miniaturized to be a fraction of the size.—
Simon Hill,
Wired News,
10 July 2025
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The Giants led 8-2 heading into the sixth inning with Webb on the mound, which is typically the kind of win probability that comes in three digits instead of two.—
Grant Brisbee,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
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Walker rejected the committees’ effort to block that part of the law and turned down a request to block a requirement that petition gatherers register with the state and provide their names, addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of Social Security numbers.—
Dara Kam,
The Orlando Sentinel,
9 July 2025
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The curriculum tackles a small number of seminal topics in each school year—like ratio and proportion or the concept of integers—and teaches these deeply from multiple angles.—
Linda Darling-Hammond,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Given that there are infinitely many positive integers of all different sizes, however, this number is minuscule compared with even larger primes.—
Rachel Crowell,
Scientific American,
16 June 2025
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Below are the leading nominees by platform for the 2025 Emmys, and the number of programs that received nods.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
15 July 2025
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Kim did not specify the number of employees who could be affected or the units that would see layoffs.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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From intuition To numerics Turning dread into numbers is possible.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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The diminished Northeast population appears to be driven by New York, which ranks first in both numeric and per capita population decline.—
Danny McDonald,
BostonGlobe.com,
29 Dec. 2022
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“Decimal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decimal. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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