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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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Another challenge is that the resulting biogas contains a substantial fraction of carbon dioxide (CO2), which usually necessitates energy-intensive downstream separation.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
9 May 2026
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The buyers pay a fraction of the prize amount, usually because the owner wants to remain anonymous, said Dawn Nettles, a Texas Lottery watchdog.—
Jack Jankowski,
The Orlando Sentinel,
9 May 2026
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In the small sample that Sportico observed, Kalshi rounded down when the lower number was the closest full digit.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
13 May 2026
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Both the Gel-1130 and Gel-NYC footwear models produced triple-digit growth, followed closely by high double-digit growth of the Gel- Kayano footwear franchise compared to the same period in 2025.—
Stephen Garner,
Footwear News,
13 May 2026
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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
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Over the next seven years, the number of pharmacies contracted with 340B providers, nationwide, grew from 1,300 to almost 20,000.—
Dené K. Dryden,
Twin Cities,
8 May 2026
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Maine, too, saw its COVID numbers increase dramatically despite extremely high vaccination uptake.—
Ian Miller OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
8 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 15 May. 2026.
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