fractions

plural of fraction

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of fractions Mastercard’s Agent Pay for Machines is designed for continuous machine-to-machine transactions, including microtransactions worth fractions of a cent. — Shlomit Wagman, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026 The brightly colored insects, native to Australia, are small — just fractions of an inch long — with colors that pop under a microscope. — Brad Balukjian, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2026 Specifically, is the set of all rational numbers, meaning those expressible as fractions, such as 1, or , or . — Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026 In a few fractions of a second, the ball travels just over 60 feet. — Noah White, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2026 When scaled across hundreds of millions of users, those fractions add up to massive daily expenditures. — New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026 Machine learning models, by contrast, make predictions in fractions of a second. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026 This represents a significant improvement over conventional qubits, which are prone to decoherence within fractions of a second. — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026 There are fractions of a point at which food prices over the last few years have gone up a little bit faster annually [over] the overall inflation rate. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fractions
Noun
  • Hanging from a gantry erected in the interior courtyard of the palazzo, tire fragments are threaded together and reassembled into hulking blasting mats.
    — Tina M. Campt, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • As attention fragments across endless feeds and screens, the moments people choose to show up for in person have become some of the most valuable in media.
    — William Earl, Variety, 29 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Offering max-level cushioning without the bulk, these sneakers are easy to pair with plenty of pieces in your travel wardrobe and add a dose of personality that’s bound to draw compliments.
    — Julia Morlino, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Crab shells, whole and in pieces, turned up all over the school, to be swept away with the dust and fallen leaves and other litter, placed in a trash bag, and carried off behind the buildings to the incinerator.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Drawn from the Times or local rags, the cutouts sometimes included images; others were just bits of text from the news or obituary sections.
    — Ryan Sullivan, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Unavoidably the text has been chopped and channeled, with some swapping of parts, bits of narration screwed into dialogue and events described in a paragraph blown out into scenes.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

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“Fractions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fractions. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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