How to Use percentage point in a Sentence

percentage point

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  • Raise the tax rates by a millionth of a percentage point.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Oct. 2022
  • By the end of 2024, the market believes the Fed could have cut rates a full percentage point.
    — Steve Garmhausen, wsj.com, 20 Sep. 2023
  • This week the Bank of England raised rates by half a percentage point—its largest hike in 27 years.
    — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 5 Aug. 2022
  • In 2016, Trump edged out Clinton here by less than a third of a percentage point.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The Fed raised rates by a quarter point in March, half a point in May, and three-quarters of a percentage point in June.
    — New York Times, 17 July 2022
  • That was up by just under 1 percentage point last year from the year before.
    — Jon Marcus, al, 4 Apr. 2023
  • That Arkansas rate dropped 0.1 percentage point since May and is lower than any in the state over the past two decades.
    — Aaron Gettinger, Arkansas Online, 22 July 2023
  • That share is up about 0.1 percentage point from the same period last year, the data show.
    — Gwynn Guilford and Lauren Weber, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The central bank is expected to raise the rate by a quarter of a percentage point, which would mark a slowdown in hikes.
    — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Biden won the district by little more than one percentage point in 2020.
    — Hannah Knowles, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The Democratic governor won the seat for his first term in 2019 by less than half a percentage point.
    — Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Cases have fallen only 5% in the past week and the test positive rate inched down a tenth of a percentage point.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Oct. 2022
  • As part of the plan, the FHA will slash the annual premium charged to mortgage borrowers by 0.3 of a percentage point.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The Fed has raised rates eight straight times in less than a year, most recently by a quarter of a percentage point, a slower pace than in nearly all of 2022.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The report comes after the central bank raised rates by half of a percentage point in December and is likely to increase the rate again at the end of this month.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The central bank hiked rates in March for the first time since the pandemic began, moving by a modest quarter of a percentage point.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • That is just one percentage point more than the average year-to-date change for all years since 2005, according to Bespoke.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 23 Aug. 2022
  • That is a full percentage point higher than the central bank’s own latest forecast.
    — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
  • That marks a step-down from a string of bigger rate hikes this summer, when the bank made four consecutive 0.75 percentage point hikes.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • So, the Fed raised its key short-term interest rate by a quarter percentage point on Wednesday.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The percentage of Black, Asian and Hispanic teachers each grows by less than a percentage point.
    — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Oregon’s jobless rate has risen a full percentage point since summer, to 4.5%.
    — oregonlive, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Mortgage rates dropped by about a quarter percentage point, the largest weekly decline since late 2022.
    — Gina Heeb, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2023
  • The central bank hiked rates by three-quarters of a percentage point at each of its last four meetings, moving at the most aggressive pace in decades.
    — Rachel Siegel, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The Fed has hiked rates five times this year, most recently by three-quarters of a percentage point in September.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Many economists anticipate that the Fed might slow down a tad and raise rates by half of a percentage point at its two-day meeting Dec. 13 and Dec. 14.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The Fed needs to see housing costs ease by about half a percentage point to reach its ultimate inflation goal, Loh added.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Economists warned this week that the water crisis could knock as much as half a percentage point off German GDP.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2022
  • With nearly all votes counted, Boebert led Frisch by 0.16 of a percentage point, the AP reported.
    — Bryan Pietsch and Amy B Wang, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Nov. 2022
  • At its November 2 meeting the Fed raised rates by three-quarters of a percentage point — its fourth straight hike of such a large magnitude.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 23 Nov. 2022

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