How to Use quintile in a Sentence

quintile

noun
  • But that's no longer a dwelling that falls in the city's high-price quintile.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 June 2022
  • Recent wage gains have been fastest for workers in the bottom quintile.
    — Jason Furman, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
  • Those in the lowest income quintile could lose 49% of their tax gains.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 June 2018
  • Meanwhile a quarter of households in the middle quintile would see their tax bills rise.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Its hefty fees land it in the second-highest quintile among peers, Morningstar said.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
  • By contrast, the next-best performers (those in the fourth quintile) earned just 9%.
    — Mohamed Kande and Lang Davidson Of Pwc, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The top quintile has seen its after-tax income rise by only 213%.
    — Phil Gramm and John Early, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Only 4% of people who were raised at the bottom quintile of income ever make it to the top one.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 22 Jan. 2020
  • People in the first quintile were 25% more likely to die from any cause compared to those in the third quintile.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Still, there are some signs of hope for the counties that the group rates as the most economically distressed quintile.
    — New York Times, 14 June 2019
  • The average incomes for those in the second quintile — a proxy for the working-class — rose faster than any other group.
    — Karl W. Smith, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2019
  • The second quintile got a 1% income boost and a $320 reduction in their tax bill.
    — Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Many of those under-savers are in the top two income quintiles and shouldn’t be government’s top priority.
    — Anne Tergesen, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2017
  • Pinto estimates that roughly 80% of the wealth effect goes to the highest quintile.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2022
  • These names are Russell 3000 stocks that are in the top quintile for low volatility and buybacks.
    — Pia Singh, CNBC, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Each stock is divided into a quintile based on its investment formula rank to aid analysis.
    — Bill Stone, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • And valuations for strong balance sheet stocks compared to weak balance sheet stocks now rank in the top quintile in Goldman's data.
    — WSJ, 11 Feb. 2019
  • The death rate was in the highest quintile among countries globally, but slightly better than many of its Balkans neighbors.
    — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Lazzara wrote that 19 of the cities in the index were in the top quintile of historical experience.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The richest quintile — those just below the top 1 percent — had a similar gain of nearly 80 percent.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2018
  • My VO2 max put me in the upper quintile of fitness for 50-year-old American males.
    — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 4 Feb. 2014
  • Companies in this cohort are less likely to be distressed compared to their peers in the first quintile – that is, firms offering the highest dividend yield.
    — Darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Arguably the worst impacts of the welfare state arise from the systematic exclusion of the least-skilled quintile of working-age people from the workforce.
    — Mario Loyola, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • In addition, being in the bottom quintile of payout ratio sets them up to increase their payout again in the future, Parker said.
    — Michelle Fox, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Goldman Sachs finds that households in the lowest income quintile spend roughly four times as much on gasoline as a share of after-tax income compared to those at the top.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Before adding the value of education to household balance sheets, 53% of student debt is held by households in the bottom quintile of wealth.
    — Preston Cooper, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The investment bank combed through the Russell 3000 for stocks that are in the top quintiles for momentum, sentiment and buybacks.
    — Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Another is to look at the middle three quintiles of the income scale — leaving the bottom 20 percent as lower class and top 20 percent as upper class.
    — Jonathan Tamari, Philly.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The idea of someone in the bottom quintile saving at all is unusual but saving every year for 40 years would be exceptionally unlikely.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 4 May 2026
  • Wolfe Research screened for companies with market caps above $250 million that are in the top quintile for net cash-to-market cap ratio, while accounting for debt.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 24 May 2026

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