Thesaurus results for PERCENTAGES

percentages

noun

plural of percentage

as in probabilities

a measure of how often an event will occur instead of another since most car thefts are never solved, there will always be greedy people ready to take advantage of this percentage

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Recent Examples of percentages Asked for prices, a Ford spokesperson said the company isn’t sharing exact numbers yet, but gave percentages against its first-generation hardware instead. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026 Bulk purchases, in particular, aren’t automatically cheaper, which is why unit-price comparison is more reliable than headline percentages off. — Ashley Lynch, Kansas City Star, 27 Oct. 2026 The artisanal company focuses on high natural-origin percentages in the formulations, inspired by the founder’s Romanian grandmother’s traditional recipes featuring ingredients like oats and calendula. — Brianna Peters, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2026 Meanwhile, stocks like McDonald's, Chipotle, Cava, Wendy's, Shake Shack and Domino's have all dropped this year, with several down double-digit percentages. — Brandon Gomez, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026 By ratio, the Jim Crow laws led to higher percentages of people being disenfranchised in the United States, according to historian Carole Anderson, who has written extensively about voter suppression of Black communities. — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 21 Oct. 2026 The data dudes have created their place, and value, in every sport, and percentages direct possessions, matchups and everything else. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Oct. 2026 By 2025, the percentages for third grade reading and math were 56 and 50, compared with the state’s 77 and 71, respectively. — Daniel H. Robinson, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026 General managers were not permitted to vote for their own team or personnel, and percentages are based on the pool of respondents to that particular question rather than all 30 general managers. — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026

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probabilities

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But of course there's a distribution of future unknown probabilities.

— Sean Conlon,Hugh Leask,Lee Ying Shan,Deena Zaidi, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2026
Farther east, including the I-35 corridor and the metroplex, rain chances will generally range from 30–50%, with lower probabilities toward our southeastern counties.

— Michael Autovino, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026

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