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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Modest Target, Bigger Ambition Beijing’s climate play is less about the exact percentage of emissions reduction at home, and more about who controls the infrastructure, resources, and financial systems of the global transition.
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Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Over their recent run, Las Vegas leads the playoffs in points per game and field goal percentage.
—Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
The group’s share of the total unemployed population spiked to its highest percentage in decades.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
This figure looks at the percentage of those who lived five years after they were diagnosed with or started treatment for a disease.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2025
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Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Over their recent run, Las Vegas leads the playoffs in points per game and field goal percentage.
—Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
The group’s share of the total unemployed population spiked to its highest percentage in decades.
—Alex Harring, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
This figure looks at the percentage of those who lived five years after they were diagnosed with or started treatment for a disease.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for percentage
probability
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All of this raises the probability that extraterrestrial life exists in the moon’s subsurface ocean.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Oct. 2025
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Bayern Munich have arguably been Europe’s most impressive team since August, and routed Pafos 5-1 to improve their title-winning probability to 10 per cent (from six).—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Percentage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/percentage. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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