median
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In April, the median rent of a Manhattan apartment topped $5,000 a month for the first time as the vacancy rate slipped to a six-year low of 1.55 percent.
From Barron's • Jun. 26, 2026
Existing-home prices are nearly five times the median income, according to Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, well above what it was in the 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026
The median Fed official in the “dot plot” leans toward one rate hike by the end of 2026 and quickly pivots to pencil in one rate cut in 2027.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 24, 2026
They describe this figure as conservative and point to research suggesting that the median scientific estimate is greater than one civilization per galaxy at some point during a galaxy's lifetime.
From Science Daily • Jun. 24, 2026
Will took her to the grassy median under the palm trees, and looked around to get his bearings.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing median
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