percentages

plural of percentage
as in probabilities
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 percentages The errors for some watches ranged from about 50% to 100% or even more for the study participants with higher body fat percentages. Jason Kostrna, The Conversation, 21 Sep. 2026 Those percentages add up to about 6,600 transgender or nonbinary students enrolled out of a total of 301,000. Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026 Two brands with overlapping confidence intervals are not meaningfully different from each other in this data, no matter how the raw percentages are ordered. Ronn Torossian, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026 The United States was seen as the greatest threat in 15 countries, with the highest percentages seen in Indonesia (73%), Brazil (59%), Mexico (58%) and Turkey (57%). Andrea Shalal, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026 These percentages are all small increases from the year prior. Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026 According to The Center for the Study of Women in Television & Film, from 2025 to 2026, the percentages of women working as creators and directors on original US programs on streaming services plummeted. Valerie Monroe, Allure, 15 Sep. 2026 There’s a lot of math and mathematical equations and probabilities and percentages. Jennifer Maas, Variety, 15 Sep. 2026 Some annuities have different withdrawal percentages, and the allowance may be based on your contract value, premium or another figure. Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026
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probabilities
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  • There’s a lot of math and mathematical equations and probabilities and percentages.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 15 Sep. 2026
  • At a recent webinar, NOAA stated that the current probabilities are not high enough to issue explicit predictions just yet.
    Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2026

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“Percentages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/percentages. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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