three-quarters

noun

: an amount equal to three of the four equal parts which make up something : seventy-five percent
Three-quarters of the class will be going on the trip.
three-quarters of an hour

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Authorities estimate that about three-quarters of people in France receive at least one unsolicited sales call every week, and many receive more. — ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026 Tokens measure the scale of AI processing, with one token equal to about three-quarters of a word. — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026 Before January, nearly three-quarters of Venezuela’s crude exports headed to China, with the United States a distant second. — Anna Cooban, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026 The next shot at the growing jackpot comes Monday night, when players will once again try to turn a $2 ticket into a prize worth nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars. — Fernando Cervantes, USA Today, 2 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for three-quarters

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“Three-quarters.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/three-quarters. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

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