percentage
noun
a rate or proportion per hundred.
percentages
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pluralof percentage.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Many tech shares have taken a dive, sometimes by large percentages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The on-base percentages, compared: .363 for the Brewers, .263 for the Dodgers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Trade policy tends to arrive in public dressed in abstraction: percentages, agreements, investigations, duties, markets.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
There were plenty of times during McCullum's reign as Test coach where those long-odds bets were placed, while Fleming seems much more likely to play the percentages.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Elementary schools by and large do manage to teach the basic algorithms for multiplication and division, addition and subtraction, as well as methods for handling fractions, decimals, and percentages.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
