percentage

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 In his interview with CNN, Noboa acknowledged the worsening homicide statistics, but pushed back by claiming that a greater percentage of the killings involved criminal-on-criminal violence. Max Saltman, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025 Survivors and their community need to know there's a chance this could happen, the scientists say - but only in a small percentage of cases. NPR, 24 Oct. 2025 The percentage of Hispanic adults who say the country is going in the wrong direction has also increased slightly over the past few months, from 63% in March to 73% now. Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025 The yards would be his second-best season — Prescott had 4,902 in 2019 — and his interception percentage would be the lowest since his rookie year. Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for percentage
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probability
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  • These experiments came after a deep-learning model sifted through possibilities to find high-probability candidates, a definitive transformation from brute-force searches typically favored in the past.
    Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The probability of lightning strikes rises as a thunderstorm approaches and peaks when the storm is directly above.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2025

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