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How to use the word average in a Sentence?

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A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

– Mark Twain

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We want to do as much as possible while we are still able, beverly is 10 times more adventurous than the average person so she makes our lives so exciting.

– Bo Knapp Both Bo

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1 year ago

We anticipate that the 2023 Atlantic basin hurricane season will have slightly below-average activity, current neutral ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) conditions look fairly likely to transition to El Niño this summer/fall. However, there is considerable uncertainty as to how strong an El Niño would be, if it does develop.

– Phil Klotzbach

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1 year ago

I think some traditions value originality more than others. That being said, if you get a ghost writer, I think most pastors would heavily frown on it, however, from a practical money perspective, that’s not something a lot of pastors can do. The average church congregation in the US is around 100 people, and the funds simply are n’t there to pay someone to do that work for you.

– Stu Strachan

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1 year ago

In a scenario where you identify and expect a platform to remove leaked classified documents, you’re asking that company to do classified document verification, that is not something your average moderator, especially for these companies that farm out their content moderation to people in low-resource countries that they underpay, are going to be able to do.

– Justin Sherman

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1 year ago

We have years ahead of us where we will be 100% focused on building capacity for higher income individuals and corporations. During this time, the audit rates of average taxpayers will not increase, people who get W-2s or Social Security payments, or have a small business, should not be worried about some new wave of IRS audits. We’re taking that off the table.

– Danny Werfel

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1 year ago

With my salary, which is higher than the average salary in Lisbon, I cannot afford renting a flat because it’s too expensive.

– Nuncio Renzi

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1 year ago

At last check, the pitch timer had reduced the average time of game in MiLB by about 26 minutes.

– Major League Baseball

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1 year ago

At the end of the day, TikTok is owned by a Chinese company, ByteDance, and by Chinese law, that company has to be willing to turn over data to the Communist Party or, one of my bigger fears, we have 150 million Americans on TikTok, average of about 90 minutes a day, and how that channel could be used for propaganda purposes or disinformation by the Communist Party.

– Mark Warner

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1 year ago

[T]he average credit card rate is now at a record high above 20%.

– Greg McBride

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1 year ago

I think younger people are on average consuming less healthy food – fast food, processed snacks, processed sugars – and I think that those foods also contain higher concentrations of carcinogens and mutagens, in addition to the fact that they are very fattening, it’s well-publicized that child, adolescent, young adult obesity is rampant, if not epidemic, in our country.

– Shane Dormady

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1 year ago

But the data don’t support these specific factors as solely driving the trend, so if you have excess body weight, you are at a higher risk of colorectal cancer in your 40s than someone who is average weight. That is true. But the excess risk is pretty small. So again, that is probably not what’s driving this increase, and it’s another reason to think that there’s something else going on.

– Rebecca Siegel

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1 year ago

The fact is, Ron is an average Governor, but the best by far in the Country in one category, Public Relations, where he easily ranks Number One, but it is all a Mirage, just look at the facts and figures, they don’t lie—And we don’t want Ron as our President!

– Donald Trump

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1 year ago

The government, on average, makes millions of payments each day, and our systems are built to pay all of our bills on time and not to pick and choose which bills to pay, it would be an exceptionally risky, untested and radical departure from normal payment practices of agencies across the federal government.

– Janet Yellen

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1 year ago

There are millions and millions of people that use eye drops safely and successfully in the United States for a variety of reasons, i want to emphasize that for the average eye drop user, there’s probably very little concern and they shouldn’t stop using their eye medicines or even their over-the-counter preparations.

– Thomas Steinemann

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1 year ago

Those hospitals have said, ‘You know what? We have an average of one patient a day or two patients a day. This doesn’t make sense anymore. We can’t sustain that nursing staff with specialized pediatric training for that. We’re going to close it down,’.

– Matthew Davis

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1 year ago

It’s very obvious that so much of what’s happening for the average teen is they’re living so much of their lives in the digital world on social media, and so much of this is connected and impacting their mental health … and how they feel about stuff.

– Keneisha Sinclair-McBride

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1 year ago

The study is another way for people to recognize that climate change affects everyone, it’s not just about the temperature rising on average around the world, it’s the actual weather events that have severe impacts on people that may be increasing in intensity and frequency.

– Matthew Rodell

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1 year ago

Since the start of the year, the average price of Yeezy sneakers has increased but sales overall have decreased on StockX, this is in line with the principles of supply and demand and consistent with what we’d expect to happen when no new supply is in the market.

– Drew Haines

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1 year ago

The large increase to 1.7 million [in January] brings them closer to the pre-pandemic average of 1.9 million and suggests that the period of unprecedented job security for American workers is coming to a close.

– Julia Pollak

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1 year ago

It’s not like their LDL was 180 or 190 or 230, their LDL was 139. This is about average in our country.

– Howard Weintraub

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1 year ago

At the ACS, we recommend if you’re at average risk, you start screening at age 45, usually, then your subsequent screening is based on the results of that screening test.

– William Dahut

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1 year ago

This is a long-term effect, lasting an average of 30 months. So that’s why we’re so excited about it.

– Emerson Perin

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1 year ago

So though the national average looks pretty normal to us in comparison to pre-pandemic prices, for a lot of travelers a route that they may have taken for years and years to a smaller, more regional airport – that might be two or three times more expensive than what they paid pre-pandemic.

– Hayley Berg

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1 year ago

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