Thesaurus results for PERCENTAGE

percentage

noun

pər-ˈsen-tij

as in probability

a measure of how often an event will occur instead of another since most car thefts are never solved, there will always be greedy people ready to take advantage of this percentage

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Recent Examples of percentage That’s the percentage of shots the Wolves made in the paint on their way to a 58-36 disadvantage in Game 2. —

Zach Harper, New York Times, 7 May 2026 Christians make up around a third of Lebanon’s 5 million people, giving the small nation on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean the largest percentage of Christians in the Middle East. —

ABC News, 6 May 2026 Without the Supreme Court’s intervention, a judge is set to soon mull what percentage the tech giant can legally charge. —

Ella Lee, The Hill, 6 May 2026 Home winning percentage has declined precipitously in both the regular season and the playoffs—likely due to improvements to travel conditions, sleep habits and recovery science. —

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probability

Noun

Personalized treatments could help the field move beyond symptom suppression and toward functional remission, optimizing the probability of therapeutic success and eventually evolving into improved prevention.

— Eric J. Nestler, STAT, 28 Apr. 2026
The probability of lightning strikes rises as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is directly above.

— STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Apr. 2026