plus or minus

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Recent Examples of plus or minus For the third quarter, the company guided for revenue of $2 billion, plus or minus $150 million. Kathryn Hardison, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2023 The Post-ABC poll was conducted Jan. 27 through Feb. 1, 2023, among a random national sample of 1,003 adults and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points among the full sample and a larger error margin among subgroups. Scott Clement, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Feb. 2023 The Post-ABC poll was conducted Jan. 27 through Feb. 1, 2023, among a random national sample of 1,003 adults and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points among the full sample and a larger error margin among subgroups. Scott Clement, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023 The margin of error was plus or minus 3%, with a 95% confidence interval. Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 9 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for plus or minus
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plus or minus
Adverb
  • According to a 2024 Bank of America report, approximately 25% of households live paycheck to paycheck, which has forced retailers to go on the offensive.
    Atal Bansal, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • These are only a few examples of the deep ties between higher education and the founding generation; approximately half of them attained some form of it—an impressively high level of advanced learning for the time.
    Time, Time, 1 July 2025
Adverb
  • The Butterfly now makes up about 30% of our North American revenue.
    Tanya Benedicto Klich, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Yes, a couple of Czech producers came up with an idea influenced by or inspired by the Wim Wenders documentary about 18 months ago.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 1 July 2025
Adverb
  • The five megawatt-hour energy storage system offers roughly the same capacity as 88 Teslas, according to Vripack.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 July 2025
  • Over in San Miguel de Allende—the No. 1 city this year according to readers, that's roughly 3.5 hours northeast in the highlands of Guanajuato—WBA voters praised two hotels that imbue the guest experience with true Mexican culture at every turn.
    Sarah Bruning, Travel + Leisure, 8 July 2025
Adverb
  • By contrast, people given placebo injections lost around 200 grams.
    Rachel Fieldhouse, Scientific American, 1 July 2025
  • Culiacan, which has around 1 million residents and is the capital of western Mexico's Sinaloa state, has been wrought by a war for control between two rival drug trafficking groups of the Sinaloa cartel – Los Chapitos and La Mayiza.
    Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025

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