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Recent Examples of decimalUnlike 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 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 See All Example Sentences for decimal
In the years since Mendoza’s sentencing, as in the years before, only a tiny fraction of farms are investigated for potential H-2A violations.
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ProPublica,
ProPublica,
13 Sep. 2025
Last but not least the DeFi sector – even with nearly $200 billion in total value locked – remains a miniscule fraction of the overall lending market and financial ecosystem.
That's up 16% from 512,000 savers who broke into seven digits on their 401(k) statements in the first quarter's turbulent market.
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Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
Since most states only collect the last four digits of Social Security numbers from voters, the latest upgrade swung open the door for many more states to use SAVE.
Algorithms are old—around 300 B.C., Euclid invented one for finding the greatest common divisor of two integers.
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Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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.
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