medians

plural of median

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Noun
  • As on-device processing improved, algorithms started comparing your current data to your own baseline, which may shift insights from generic averages to patterns that actually match your habits over weeks and months.
    William Jones, jsonline.com, 11 Nov. 2025
  • All nine previous opponents scored less on Auburn than their season scoring averages.
    Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Otherwise, things should be mainly dry with temperatures close to seasonal normals.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • These temperature and precipitation deviations are based on averages (or normals) derived from data provided by government meteorological agencies, data that is updated every ten years, still the Old Farmer’s Almanac claims only 80 percent accuracy.
    Emilee Coblentz, Outside, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Rather, the slow start (by Ovechkin’s standards) to this season seemed due more to poor puck luck.
    Sean Gentille, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2025
  • For starters, he or she will be armed with some of the top TV and film incentives in the nation, crediting up to 40 percent of qualified expenses against taxes for productions that meet a series of minimum standards.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The organization is working to transform cultural norms and narratives surrounding aging, disability and care, as well as make change through federal and state-level policies and build power among the people who have been touched by care.
    Katherine Schaffstall, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
  • This report was prepared for a review committee and shared with them by another scientist-pal, a breach of professional norms that later drew criticism.
    Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The problem is that the objective optimized by the algorithm is good for the people who control the means of prediction…but not good for the rest of society.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Then Vice President Cheney condemned those behind the torture scandal, while at the same time defending water-boarding as a useful means of extracting vital intelligence (many intelligence experts say water-boarding is torture, and its victims will say anything to avoid further abuse).
    Ben Wedeman, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
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“Medians.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medians. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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