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Recent Examples of decimal
This is, however, all a best-case scenario, with a nimble and proactive agency willing to work fast to fine-tune campaign performance down to the decimal.
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Sergii Denysenko, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
If the total is showing a decimal like 36.5, go to the nearest whole number.
—Bianca London, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2025
But Pi Day isn’t just about equations and infinite decimals.
—Matt Rozo, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2025
Being effective may well require a prospective tutor to get a refresher on how to add fractions with unlike denominators or multiply decimals, but a bachelor’s degree, while nice, shouldn’t be a prerequisite.
—Michael Thomas Duffy, Hartford Courant, 31 Jan. 2024
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Sergii Denysenko, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
If the total is showing a decimal like 36.5, go to the nearest whole number.
—Bianca London, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2025
But Pi Day isn’t just about equations and infinite decimals.
—Matt Rozo, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2025
Being effective may well require a prospective tutor to get a refresher on how to add fractions with unlike denominators or multiply decimals, but a bachelor’s degree, while nice, shouldn’t be a prerequisite.
—Michael Thomas Duffy, Hartford Courant, 31 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decimal
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The company was eventually acquired by Life360 in 2021 for approximately $205 million — a fraction of its peak valuation.—
Matt Rogers,
Fortune,
30 May 2026
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As robots grow more capable and AI more sophisticated, a growing chorus of researchers contends that machines can go further, do more, and take on greater risk – all at a fraction of the cost of keeping a human alive in orbit.—
Omar Kardoudi
May 29,
New Atlas,
29 May 2026
Noun
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However, first-time voters who registered by mail without providing a driver license number, state ID or the last four digits of their Social Security number might be required to show identification.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
27 May 2026
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This validated questionnaire asks about symptoms like heel pain and swollen joints or digits.—
Petra Guglielmetti,
Glamour,
27 May 2026
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That’s because for 99% of human history, information arrived into brains mainly as whole integers – as people, things and events.—
Owen D. Jones,
The Conversation,
26 May 2026
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Instead of relying on traditional geometry tricks, the AI connected the problem to algebraic number theory, a deep branch of mathematics that studies number systems extending ordinary integers.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
20 May 2026
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The decision to launch Allen’s show in Colbert’s time slot on a Friday was surprising, because none of the current crop of late-night programs airs originals regularly on Fridays, meaning the audience does not regularly tune to them in typical numbers.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
29 May 2026
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The underlying numbers are just as troubling.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 May 2026
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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 1 Jun. 2026.
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