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Recent Examples of decimal
If the total is showing a decimal like 36.5, go to the nearest whole number.
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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
The leaders of those and other rate stats — expressed with decimals — are now sprinkled with Negro League standouts.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
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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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
The leaders of those and other rate stats — expressed with decimals — are now sprinkled with Negro League standouts.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
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
Noun
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These investments are a fraction of a total loss.—
Jane Kim,
Oc Register,
2 May 2026
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As the rodeo-ropin’ wife to Jake Gyllenhaal’s Jack Twist, Hathaway landed her first blush with a world-class filmmaker but a fraction of the notices that her equally brilliant peers Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, and Gyllenhaal received.—
Chris Feil,
Vulture,
1 May 2026
Noun
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But Ivey made clear that in Brevard County, drivers hitting triple-digit speeds shouldn’t expect a warning.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
6 May 2026
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That failure, however, was the end of the window for the state to get to Wachsmann, a Wake Forest commit with a triple-digit fastball who has been almost untouchable in the two years since.—
Kyle Newman,
Denver Post,
4 May 2026
Noun
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Not just because infinity is so useful and so natural to our descriptions of the universe, but because treating sets of numbers (like the integers) as actual, infinite objects is at the very core of mathematics, embedded in its most fundamental rules and assumptions.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Apr. 2026
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The final number, q, is obtained by dividing k by 4 and keeping only the integer part; that is, q = 5 for 2026.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
4 Apr. 2026
Noun
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All of the numbers from that game are jaw-dropping.—
Dan Santaromita,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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Nexstar contends the deal would strengthen TV station economics, allowing stations to bolster their news gathering and expand the number of newscasts.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
Noun
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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 7 May. 2026.
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