How to Use decile in a Sentence

decile

noun
  • The book’s title refers to the nation’s top decile of income-earners, minus the uber-wealthy.
    Barton Swaim, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The top decile also owned 60% of housing wealth and 64% of pension assets.
    Aroop Chatterjee, Quartz Africa, 30 Apr. 2020
  • The difference is that in the Obama part of the boom the income of the top decile rose by 20 percent, with tiny gains for other groups.
    Christopher Caldwell, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2020
  • People in the next decile consumed, on average, 15 drinks a week, and in the one below that, six drinks a week.
    Kate Julian, The Atlantic, 1 June 2021
  • In fact, in most years the bottom decile of EMs log negative growth, a share rarely seen for developed economies.
    Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Fortune, 17 July 2023
  • But even this decile is largely denied access to the heart of the second economy.
    Rana Dasgupta, Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Most people in the top-income decile are considered middle class.
    E.j. Antoni, The Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Ten full tax returns, each representative of a decile of income in the United States.
    James Fallows, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The report found that nearly 40% of workers in the third decile of earnings have high-AI exposure and low performance requirements.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
  • All of the big four barring the Commonwealth are in the second-highest decile among their peers in terms of analysts’ estimates for blended-forward 12-month dividend yields.
    David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Even after the recent tumble in prices, the Shiller P/E, currently at 31, sits firmly in the most expensive decile historically.
    Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
  • This investment methodology has enabled the venture fund to provide top decile returns to investors and grow their fund to $1.5B in capital.
    Sergei Revzin and Vadim Revzin, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The economists estimate that debt forgiveness like this would be almost six times more beneficial to borrowers in the top decile of earners than borrowers in the lowest decile of earners.
    Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 9 Dec. 2020
  • For comparing similarly sized departments in the table, searches are matched to nearby departments in the same nationwide decile in terms of number of officers.
    Claire Healy, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The company didn’t offer health insurance to part-time workers, for example, had only minimal caregiver leave, and paid its top-earning employees a lot more than its lowest decile.
    Cassie Werber, Quartz at Work, 9 Dec. 2019
  • The primary care physicians, however, must also be considered a primary target, and physician-prescribing information by decile must be used to target the highest potential physicians.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 9 Jan. 2020

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