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Recent Examples of decimal
Again, multiply the resulting decimal by 100.
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
The problem is that these things, even at the second decimal, accumulate over half a century.
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Derek Thompson,
The Atlantic,
26 May 2026
This is, however, all a best-case scenario, with a nimble and proactive agency willing to work fast to fine-tune campaign performance down to the decimal.
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Sergii Denysenko,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
The problem is that these things, even at the second decimal, accumulate over half a century.
—
Derek Thompson,
The Atlantic,
26 May 2026
This is, however, all a best-case scenario, with a nimble and proactive agency willing to work fast to fine-tune campaign performance down to the decimal.
—
Sergii Denysenko,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for decimal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for decimal
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Roughly 100 children have been treated elsewhere in the hospital since last week, a fraction of those injured in the earthquakes.
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The $8 million in fees represents only a fraction of the legal costs incurred by Lively during the course of 18 months of litigation against Baldoni.
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Lymphatic drainage has gone from a niche clinical treatment to a category spanning $8 dry brushes and $300 vibration plates, with search interest climbing by triple digits since 2021.
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As extreme heat pushed heat index values into the triple digits on Tuesday, the Red Oaks Waterpark in Madison Heights, Michigan, closed its gates, with Oakland County officials citing safety concerns for both visitors and employees.
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When Ars first reported on AcuRite in May, AcuRite NOW lacked some features of My AcuRite, including the ability to rename multiple temperature sensors, report temperatures in non-integers, as well as an online dashboard option.
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The number 3, for example, is simultaneously an integer, a natural number, and a real number.
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While students honed their skills at the Santa Monica studio for the last year and four months, Blanck found an old pilates studio in Pacific Highlands for rent, but the numbers just didn't add up.
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Each ticket costs $5, and players may pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers — five different numbers from 1 to 70 (the white balls) and one number from 1 to 24 (the gold Mega Ball) — or select Easy Pick/Quick Pick.
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From intuition To numerics Turning dread into numbers is possible.
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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.
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“Decimal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/decimal. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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