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
No complex calculations needed—just stick to those percentages and adjust based on results.
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Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
The numbers on the vertical axis are decimal representations of percentages.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Thirteen teams as a whole have higher 3-point percentages than the Magic’s best 3-point shooter.
—Josh Robbins, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
The percentages step up each year until hitting 100% in 2035.
—Phillip Molnar, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025
These might be daily margin percentages, team performance metrics or progress on new strategies.
—Jim Becker, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
Diseases that once ran rampant, killing significant percentages of the population and permanently injuring significantly more, have been nearly eradicated from humanity.
—Big Think, 20 Feb. 2025
Challenge percentages were more likely later in the game.
—Ronald Blum, Baltimore Sun, 20 Feb. 2025
Then again, looking at the high percentages of voters who expect these potential tariffs to affect both the price of certain items and their personal finances, many of these same voters may have been aware of the risks and voted for the current administration regardless of concerns.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
The numbers on the vertical axis are decimal representations of percentages.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Thirteen teams as a whole have higher 3-point percentages than the Magic’s best 3-point shooter.
—Josh Robbins, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
The percentages step up each year until hitting 100% in 2035.
—Phillip Molnar, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025
These might be daily margin percentages, team performance metrics or progress on new strategies.
—Jim Becker, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
Diseases that once ran rampant, killing significant percentages of the population and permanently injuring significantly more, have been nearly eradicated from humanity.
—Big Think, 20 Feb. 2025
Challenge percentages were more likely later in the game.
—Ronald Blum, Baltimore Sun, 20 Feb. 2025
Then again, looking at the high percentages of voters who expect these potential tariffs to affect both the price of certain items and their personal finances, many of these same voters may have been aware of the risks and voted for the current administration regardless of concerns.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for percentages
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The best scenario for snow on the ground on Christmas Day would be in a region highlighted in white, where probabilities exceed 90%.—
Meredith Garofalo,
Space.com,
20 Dec. 2024
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This shift in perspective allowed the Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann to reframe and sharpen the idea of entropy using probabilities.—
Zack Savitsky,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Dec. 2024
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“Percentages.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/percentages. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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