average out

phrasal verb

averaged out; averaging out; averages out
: to produce a result that is even and balanced when looked at over a period of time
The irregularities averaged out over the course of the study.
Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose. It all averages out in the end.

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There are 42 million new infections each year — that averages out to one new person infected each second. Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024 Left Bank had 36 members of staff, meaning the bonuses would have averaged out at more than £280,000 per employee. Jake Kanter, Deadline, 3 Mar. 2025 The upside is that repeating the same computation and averaging out the results could make conventional quantum error correction unnecessary. IEEE Spectrum, 9 Jan. 2025 Each were measured on a 100-point scale and averaged out by weight to determine the overall rank of where to spend Thanksgiving Day. Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 20 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for average out

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“Average out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/average%20out. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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