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Recent Examples of decimal
The leaders of those and other rate stats — expressed with decimals — are now sprinkled with Negro League standouts.
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Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
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.
—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
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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Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
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.
—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
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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Only a small fraction of the crude that passes through the strait might be able to be redirected, McNally said.—
Spencer Kimball,Pippa Stevens,
CNBC,
28 Feb. 2026
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There’s nothing quite like the thrill of snagging hard-to-find items (sometimes from designer brands) for a fraction of the original price.—
Julia Morlino,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Despite shooting 42% from the field and 35% from the 3-point line, Denver kept an opponent out of triple digits for only the third time this season.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
26 Feb. 2026
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Some ComEd customers saw a triple-digit increase in their total June electricity bills due to a supply rate increase and high demand during a summer heat wave.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Next, arrange the nodes in a circle and label each one with an integer.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
28 Jan. 2026
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In 1980 Klaus von Klitzing at the Planck Institute for Solid State Research, in Stuttgart, Germany, discovered the integer quantum Hall effect.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
13 Dec. 2025
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No one answered calls placed Thursday to numbers listed for possible relatives of McCloud.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Feb. 2026
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That figure, however, was skewed substantially by Musk’s late-game spending blitz and, without him, the numbers look closer to 50-50.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Feb. 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 5 Mar. 2026.
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