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Recent Examples of decimal
The leaders of those and other rate stats — expressed with decimals — are now sprinkled with Negro League standouts.
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Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
Unlike some scales that give a decimal reading for pounds, the Greater Goods scale features accuracy down to 0.1 ounces and provides measurements in pounds with ounces, decimal pounds, or kilograms.
—Laura Lu, Ms, Parents, 21 Mar. 2024
The closer that decimal is to one, the more compact the district is.
—Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2024
Being effective may well require a prospective tutor to get a refresher on how to add fractions with unlike denominators or multiply decimals, but a bachelor’s degree, while nice, shouldn’t be a prerequisite.
—Michael Thomas Duffy, Hartford Courant, 31 Jan. 2024
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Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
Unlike some scales that give a decimal reading for pounds, the Greater Goods scale features accuracy down to 0.1 ounces and provides measurements in pounds with ounces, decimal pounds, or kilograms.
—Laura Lu, Ms, Parents, 21 Mar. 2024
The closer that decimal is to one, the more compact the district is.
—Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2024
Being effective may well require a prospective tutor to get a refresher on how to add fractions with unlike denominators or multiply decimals, but a bachelor’s degree, while nice, shouldn’t be a prerequisite.
—Michael Thomas Duffy, Hartford Courant, 31 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decimal
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The young girl is reading at a 12th-grade level and mastering math concepts such as fractions, decimals and even exponents.—
Jasmine Viel,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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The assembly hall also represented a small fraction of people who ultimately will determine the nomination.—
Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
28 Mar. 2026
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The information the department is requesting would include information such as full name, date of birth, address, driver’s license and the last four digits of a Social Security numbers.—
Shannon Tyler,
Idaho Statesman,
1 Apr. 2026
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Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, believes one more month of triple-digit oil prices could be enough.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2026
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Specifically, the issue involves something called an integer overflow.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
10 Mar. 2026
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Encryption: current encryption techniques require decomposing large integers (on which RSA encryption is based) created as a product of prime numbers, into their prime factors.—
Sabbir Rangwala,
Forbes.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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Later that month, his daughter, who lives abroad, received a call from an unknown number informing her that her brother had been shot and killed.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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That means $27 million in new state tax revenue, according to numbers provided by the Department of Revenue.—
Caroline Cummings,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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From intuition To numerics Turning dread into numbers is possible.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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The diminished Northeast population appears to be driven by New York, which ranks first in both numeric and per capita population decline.—
Danny McDonald,
BostonGlobe.com,
29 Dec. 2022
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“Decimal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decimal. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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