How to Use quartile in a Sentence

quartile

noun
  • The real wages of the top quartile fell 1.1% over the two years.
    Tami Luhby, CNN, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The best funds make returns in the top 25% of their group, also called the top quartile.
    Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 18 June 2018
  • Texas sits in the middle with 11% and Florida is in the top quartile with 23%.
    Effie Anolik, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Scores for the top quartile rose slightly in eighth-grade reading and math.
    Moriah Balingit, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Their season ticket renewals were in the top quartile in the league.
    Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • When Chapek took over as CEO in 2020, the board set his target pay in the bottom quartile for media chiefs.
    Anders Melin, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2022
  • On a one-year horizon, almost a third of Amundi’s funds were in the bottom two quartiles.
    Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • In each of the ACT's four test areas, only 9 to 12 percent of the all-general students scored in the top quartile.
    Diane Rado, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2017
  • The lowest quartile presumably would never have been able to master many of these rules in the first place.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2012
  • Miami ranked at the bottom of the pack for share of scale-ups, and in the bottom quartile for the other two categories.
    Nancy Dahlberg, miamiherald, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Because most of the unbanked are in the bottom quartile of U.S. earners, these costs fall on those who can least afford them.
    Serenity Gibbons, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • On the other hand, a child from a family in the top income quartile, who has low test scores in grade school, has a 70% chance of getting that good job.
    Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 June 2021
  • Nominal wages in the lowest quartile of the income scale are growing by 4.6%.
    The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
  • In fact, the needle had hardly budged among the bottom quartile of presidents.
    Thomas Balcerski, CNN, 30 June 2021
  • Nearly two-thirds of the lowest quartile of earners are women.
    Liz Hoffman and Margot Patrick, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The participants played a video game, then some were shown a leaderboard that placed them in the top or bottom quartile of players.
    Will Bedingfield, Wired, 4 Dec. 2021
  • By contrast, the bottom quartile has already worked through a chunk of savings and has around $100 billion left.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Among the bottom quartile of earners, that proportion is more than half.
    Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Of course, one is the rate of return, especially among the top quartile of performers.
    Jacob Wolinsky, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Firms also published the share of men and women in each income quartile, with most proving top-heavy with men (see chart).
    The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Among ​Goldman’s highest quartile of earners, 83% are men.
    Liz Hoffman and Margot Patrick, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
  • That sent DTE Energy down to the bottom 25%, or fourth quartile, in rankings for the duration of its outages.
    Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2018
  • SPACs in the quartile with lower revenue forecasts lag the market by just over 10% on average.
    Simon Moore, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • To qualify for the full program, Mendoza explained a student has to have been enrolled at Fairmont for 10 years and be in the top quartile of their class.
    Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The county had a 2.9% positive test rate and a health equity quartile metric of 4.9%.
    Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2021
  • But none of that was primarily oriented to the third quartile.
    Frank Lavin, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Research shows that 8 percent of people in the top income quartile run out of money if they are only retired for 20 years.
    Bruce Helmer and Peg Webb, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Meanwhile, the opposite was true for the highest-income quartile.
    Anneken Tappe, CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
  • The Oilers rank in the top five for both regular season gate receipts and local media, while sponsorship revenue is in the top quartile.
    Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 13 June 2024
  • Furthermore, companies in the top quartile for ethnic and cultural diversity outperformed those in the fourth quartile by 36% in profitability.
    Dan Pontefract, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024

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