How to Use plus or minus in a Sentence

plus or minus

1 of 2 adjective

• The girls who were brought up to play with this doll are now plus or minus 30 years old.
  — Radina Gigova, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023
• So would most people who have ushered a child through age 17, plus or minus.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
• The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
  — John Woolfolk, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2024
• The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.
  — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
  — CBS News, 28 June 2023
• The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2023
• The margin of error was up to plus or minus 6 percentage points.
  — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 25 July 2023
• The margin of error was up to plus or minus 5 percentage points.
  — oregonlive, 20 Apr. 2023
• The margin of error for this poll was plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 15 July 2023
• The margin of error for the swing state voters was plus or minus 6 percentage points.
  — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 26 June 2023
• The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
  — Wayne Parry, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2024
• The margin of error is plus or minus 4.6 percentage points.
  — Bridget Bowman, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2023
• The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
  — Mark Murray, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2023
• The poll was conducted by telephone from Nov. 30 to Dec. 4 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner, 11 Dec. 2023
• Results for the full sample have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
  — Maddie Burakoff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2023
• Results from the full survey have a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
• The findings have a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points for adults and 4 percentage points for youth.
  — Itzel Luna, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• The overall margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points.
  — Emily Guskin, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
• More than 800 doctors from a range of specialties were included and the survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3%.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2023
• Both surveys have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
  — Mark Murray, NBC News, 27 Nov. 2023
• When all states are combined, the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 1.8 percentage points.
  — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
• The bank targets inflation of 3%, plus or minus one percentage point.
  — Matthew Malinowski, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2023
• The total sample has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
  — Victoria Balara, Fox News, 18 Dec. 2023
• The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 5.9 percentage points.
  — Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2023
• The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
• The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
• Results among the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
  — Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN, 17 Oct. 2023
• The surveys were conducted July 28-30 and have a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2023
• Now fold the other side in, too, overlapping about an inch (plus or minus two inches depending on design) at the center.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 20 Apr. 2023
• This change is, however, within the poll's margin of error, which is plus or minus 1-2 percentage points.
  — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 18 July 2023

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plus or minus

2 of 2 adverb

• I have plus or minus five dollars in change.
• The margin of error for the poll was plus or minus 3.99%.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 11 May 2022
• The margin of error is plus or minus 4.2% points for the full sample.
  — Bill Glauber, Journal Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2022
• That poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 points.
  — Washington Post, 7 June 2021
• It's been 14 months, plus or minus, and some of us don't really want to be out there quite yet.
  — Star Tribune, 22 May 2021
• The poll of 868 adults has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
  — Jimmy Vielkind, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2021
• The margin of error on the poll was plus or minus 1.5 percentage points.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
• Results have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 points for the full sample.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2021
• The poll had an error rate of plus or minus 3.43 percentage points.
  — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022
• To reach a league ranking, each team’s point value (plus or minus) was added, then divided by the number of the teams in the league.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2022
• The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
  — Yvonne H. Valdez, sun-sentinel.com, 12 July 2021
• The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 16 June 2022
• The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 5.4 percentage points.
  — Jimmy Vielkind, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021
• The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 30 May 2022
• The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.
  — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2022
• The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 25 May 2022
• My best error-free speed, as measured on monkeytype.com, is now a hundred words a minute, plus or minus a few.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2022
• The poll had a margin of error or plus or minus 4 percentage points.
  — oregonlive, 6 Oct. 2022
• The margin of error in the Channel 8 poll was plus or minus 3 percentage points.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 2 Nov. 2022
• The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus 3.6 points.
  — Fred Backus, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2021
• The margin of error for the full sample was plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.
  — John McCormick, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2022
• The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points on the full sample.
  — John McCormick, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022
• At its most basic, the 10-year yield is a measure of where investors think the Fed will set rates over the next 10 years, plus or minus an amount to reflect the risk of being wrong.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 12 July 2021
• The margin of error was plus or minus four percentage points.
  — Ian Fisher, Bloomberg.com, 2 Jan. 2022
• The results of the question in this release have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Sep. 2021
• The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 8 July 2021
• The poll's margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
  — Merdie Nzanga, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2022
• The poll's margin of error was plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.
  — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2022
• The poll surveyed 600 active and likely voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points.
  — Detroit Free Press, 8 Nov. 2022
• Results for the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
  — Nadia Kounang, CNN, 7 Oct. 2022

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