fractions

plural of fraction

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of fractions Mastercard’s Agent Pay for Machines is designed for continuous machine-to-machine transactions, including microtransactions worth fractions of a cent. — Shlomit Wagman, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026 The brightly colored insects, native to Australia, are small — just fractions of an inch long — with colors that pop under a microscope. — Brad Balukjian, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2026 Specifically, is the set of all rational numbers, meaning those expressible as fractions, such as 1, or , or . — Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026 In a few fractions of a second, the ball travels just over 60 feet. — Noah White, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2026 When scaled across hundreds of millions of users, those fractions add up to massive daily expenditures. — New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026 Machine learning models, by contrast, make predictions in fractions of a second. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2026 This represents a significant improvement over conventional qubits, which are prone to decoherence within fractions of a second. — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026 There are fractions of a point at which food prices over the last few years have gone up a little bit faster annually [over] the overall inflation rate. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fractions
Noun
  • Hanging from a gantry erected in the interior courtyard of the palazzo, tire fragments are threaded together and reassembled into hulking blasting mats.
    — Tina M. Campt, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • As attention fragments across endless feeds and screens, the moments people choose to show up for in person have become some of the most valuable in media.
    — William Earl, Variety, 29 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Riley was a direct inspiration on the record, and while the Bay Area composer did work with drones, his influence is more poignant here, in the way Schwendener breaks the melody down into pieces and moves them around.
    — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026
  • Your car could become a grid asset Electric vehicles are one of the most obvious pieces of this puzzle because their batteries can store substantial amounts of electricity while the vehicles are parked for much of the day.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Drawn from the Times or local rags, the cutouts sometimes included images; others were just bits of text from the news or obituary sections.
    — Ryan Sullivan, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Unavoidably the text has been chopped and channeled, with some swapping of parts, bits of narration screwed into dialogue and events described in a paragraph blown out into scenes.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

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“Fractions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fractions. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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