on average

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variants or on the average

: taking the typical example of the group under consideration

Prices have increased on average by five percent. [=the average increase has been five percent]

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Tsai said customers' shopping sessions routinely ran over 30 minutes on average, and that time kept compounding as Fanatics released upwards of a thousand new products each week. — Ian Thomas, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026 When a server in the US earns less than $17 an hour on average, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that typically doesn’t give them a lot of savings to pay for unexpected medical bills. — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026 Staff in Bunq’s finance and treasury teams stay three to four years on average. — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026 Patients who received the highest dose of the drug, called brezosiran, saw the levels of mutant huntingtin in their spinal fluid fall by 60% or 64% on average, depending on the type of assay used. — Elaine Chen, STAT, 23 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for on average

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