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How to use the word averages in a Sentence?

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The northern melt this past week is not normal, looking at 30 to 40 years of climate averages, but melting has been on the increase, and this event was a spike in melt.

Ted Scambos

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you look at historical averages, Congressional Leadership Fund is a good indication of what is possible.

Dan Conston

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We’re just trying to make sure we can keep them on their heels and not allow them to get into set defenses, that’s what I love about life is the law of averages. We were bound to get hot.

Reggie Jackson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Apple is holding back the averages, another factor is we have a huge rally in (Treasury) yields, the 10-year is up substantially. Those two factors are holding back the market and dampening the enthusiasm that some kind of cosmetic trade deal is on its way.

Peter Cardillo

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Mexico started to increase those levels of detentions and deportations. They very quickly got back to the historic averages over the last several years, and in recent months have gone way beyond that. ... They're now, within the last few weeks, detaining and deporting a huge number of Central American migrants. So the idea that Mexico is doing nothing is just patently false, could Mexico do more ? Yeah, I think so. Is Mexico not doing anything ? That's just absolutely wrong.

Christopher Wilson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Global inventories are approaching long-run averages, suggesting that the coordinated OPEC/non-OPEC supply cuts have been successful.

Jack Allardyce

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Economic strength, along with improved commodity prices, is a factor in the ratio of fallen angels to rising stars remaining below historical averages.

Michael Corelli

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Barring any unforeseen negative news, geopolitical, economic, political, perhaps we'll end up today the way we ended up yesterday - which was at or near highs for popular averages.

Ted Weisberg

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Our website averages 35 million visitors a month, which is 20 times more than the busiest shopping mall in the country.

Demet Mutlu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There seems to be this perpetual stream of kind of quasi-negative news surrounding some of the really big market cap stocks, like Apple particularly, and anytime you have got Apple misbehaving that tends to put a damper on the averages.

Chuck Carlson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

After that class I felt better about it, they said kids in frats have better time management skills, set study times, did it as a group activity. Those kids had higher grade point averages. All the things a mother wants to hear, I heard. I convinced his dad to let him do it. Never once did I ever feel like my child would be harmed in any way.

Cindy Hipps

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Squaring what works for you and what the science says is difficult because happiness is a complex object, there will be local variations due to individual personality, so we've immediately got a reason for expecting a gap between the science -- which tends to work with group averages -- and any one person's experience.

Tom Stafford

Found on CNN
9 years ago

After that class I felt better about it, they said kids in frats have better time-management skills .... those kids had higher grade-point averages. All the things a mother wants to hear, I heard. I convinced his dad to let him do it. Never once did I even feel like the child would be harmed in any way.

Cindy Hipps

Found on CNN
9 years ago

After that class I felt better about it, they said kids in frats have better time management skills .... those kids had higher grade point averages. All the things a mother wants to hear, I heard. I convinced his dad to let him do it. Never once did I even feel like the child would be harmed in any way.

Cindy Hipps

Found on CNN
9 years ago

They said kids in frats have better time management skills .... those kids had higher grade point averages. All the things a mother wants to hear, I heard. I convinced his dad to let him do it. Never once did I even feel like the child would be harmed in any way.

Tucker Hipps

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It is sobering to think that gold prices would need to fall to around $ 750 to bring prices in real terms back towards long run historical averages.

Deutsche Bank

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In the world of investing, averages don't mean much.

Ashwin Alankar

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Restaurant meals are really a problem, people eat most of their meals outside of the home. It's important for them to know that the average entrée, dessert, and appetizer averages 1,000 calories.

Paige Einstein

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Aside from access to subsidized travel, gym memberships, haircuts, and the like, congressmen have a retirement plan which averages about $40,000 a year for retired members.

Ken Boehm

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's an open question whether there's any earnings growth this year, with a market multiple slightly above long-term averages, you have to ask whether the market's going to go anywhere.

John Carey

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

Bill Mauldin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind.

John W. Hanley

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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