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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
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Yet without laws allowing for domestic partnerships of three or more people, they are left spending thousands of dollars on attorney’s fees to craft a patchwork of legal agreements that afford just small fraction of the contractual protection conferred to married couples by default.—
Sonja Sharp,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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Its trillion-parameter system uses a Mixture-of-Experts approach, activating only a fraction of parameters per task.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Apr. 2026
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The case involves a 2019 class-action lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by shopper Brian Keim, who alleged that receipts from Trader Joe's stores displayed the first six and last four digits of his credit card, increasing the risk of identity theft.—
Carlos E. Castañeda,
CBS News,
21 Apr. 2026
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If that’s true, the entire psychological burden of the piece has been distilled into that one strained digit.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
20 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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Specifically, the issue involves something called an integer overflow.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
10 Mar. 2026
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These eye-popping numbers did not escape county Third District Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, who in November led the way for passage of the OurCounty Sustainability Plan.—
Steve Scauzillo,
Daily News,
24 Apr. 2026
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His numbers dropped as the year progressed, with four of his five interceptions coming in the final four games of the regular season.—
Adam Grosbard,
Oc Register,
24 Apr. 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 26 Apr. 2026.
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