How to Use plus or minus in a Sentence
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The girls who were brought up to play with this doll are now plus or minus 30 years old.
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Radina Gigova,
CNN,
1 Sep. 2023
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So would most people who have ushered a child through age 17, plus or minus.
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Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
24 July 2023
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The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
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John Woolfolk,
The Mercury News,
1 Mar. 2024
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The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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Ben Kamisar,
NBC News,
31 Mar. 2023
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The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
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CBS News,
28 June 2023
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The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.
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Ken Tran,
USA TODAY,
8 Aug. 2023
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The margin of error was up to plus or minus 5 percentage points.
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oregonlive,
20 Apr. 2023
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The margin of error was up to plus or minus 6 percentage points.
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Jamie Goldberg,
oregonlive,
25 July 2023
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The margin of error for this poll was plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
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Jenny Goldsberry,
Washington Examiner,
15 July 2023
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The margin of error for the swing state voters was plus or minus 6 percentage points.
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Bridget Bowman,
NBC News,
26 June 2023
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The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
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Wayne Parry,
Fortune,
6 Feb. 2024
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The margin of error is plus or minus 4.6 percentage points.
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Bridget Bowman,
NBC News,
14 Sep. 2023
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The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
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Mark Murray,
NBC News,
20 Nov. 2023
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The poll was conducted by telephone from Nov. 30 to Dec. 4 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
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Mabinty Quarshie,
Washington Examiner,
11 Dec. 2023
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Results for the full sample have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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Maddie Burakoff,
BostonGlobe.com,
15 June 2023
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Results from the full survey have a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
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Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
13 Sep. 2023
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The findings have a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points for adults and 4 percentage points for youth.
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Itzel Luna,
USA TODAY,
29 June 2023
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The overall margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points.
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Emily Guskin,
Washington Post,
22 Oct. 2023
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More than 800 doctors from a range of specialties were included and the survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3%.
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Karen Weintraub,
USA TODAY,
29 Mar. 2023
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Both surveys have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
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Mark Murray,
NBC News,
27 Nov. 2023
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When all states are combined, the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 1.8 percentage points.
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Maggie Haberman,
New York Times,
6 Nov. 2023
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The bank targets inflation of 3%, plus or minus one percentage point.
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Matthew Malinowski,
Bloomberg.com,
8 June 2023
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The total sample has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points.
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Victoria Balara,
Fox News,
18 Dec. 2023
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The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.
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Sudiksha Kochi,
USA TODAY,
18 Aug. 2023
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The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 5.9 percentage points.
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Jonathan Weisman,
New York Times,
4 Aug. 2023
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The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
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Susan Page,
USA TODAY,
20 Feb. 2024
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Results among the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy,
CNN,
17 Oct. 2023
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The surveys were conducted July 28-30 and have a margin of error of plus or minus four percentage points.
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Mabinty Quarshie,
Washington Examiner,
1 Aug. 2023
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Now fold the other side in, too, overlapping about an inch (plus or minus two inches depending on design) at the center.
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Hadley Keller,
House Beautiful,
20 Apr. 2023
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This change is, however, within the poll's margin of error, which is plus or minus 1-2 percentage points.
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Julia Johnson,
Washington Examiner,
18 July 2023
- I have plus or minus five dollars in change.
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The margin of error for the poll was plus or minus 3.99%.
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Mike Cason | McAson@al.com,
al,
11 May 2022
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The margin of error is plus or minus 4.2% points for the full sample.
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Bill Glauber,
Journal Sentinel,
17 Aug. 2022
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That poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 points.
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Washington Post,
7 June 2021
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It's been 14 months, plus or minus, and some of us don't really want to be out there quite yet.
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Star Tribune,
22 May 2021
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The poll of 868 adults has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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Jimmy Vielkind,
WSJ,
24 Aug. 2021
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The margin of error on the poll was plus or minus 1.5 percentage points.
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Ella Nilsen,
CNN,
1 Mar. 2022
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Results have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 points for the full sample.
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BostonGlobe.com,
25 Apr. 2021
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The poll had an error rate of plus or minus 3.43 percentage points.
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Mark Eddington,
The Salt Lake Tribune,
27 Sep. 2022
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To reach a league ranking, each team’s point value (plus or minus) was added, then divided by the number of the teams in the league.
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John Maffei,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Aug. 2022
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The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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Yvonne H. Valdez,
sun-sentinel.com,
12 July 2021
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The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.
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Cameron McWhirter,
WSJ,
2 Nov. 2022
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The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
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Paul Egan,
Detroit Free Press,
16 June 2022
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The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 5.4 percentage points.
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Jimmy Vielkind,
WSJ,
9 Dec. 2021
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The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.
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Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
30 May 2022
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The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
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John Fritze,
USA TODAY,
25 May 2022
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My best error-free speed, as measured on monkeytype.com, is now a hundred words a minute, plus or minus a few.
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David Owen,
The New Yorker,
26 Aug. 2022
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The poll had a margin of error or plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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oregonlive,
6 Oct. 2022
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The margin of error in the Channel 8 poll was plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
2 Nov. 2022
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The error due to sampling for results based on the entire sample could be plus or minus 3.6 points.
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Fred Backus,
CBS News,
16 Sep. 2021
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The margin of error for the full sample was plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.
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John McCormick,
WSJ,
14 Mar. 2022
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The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points on the full sample.
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John McCormick,
WSJ,
7 Nov. 2022
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At its most basic, the 10-year yield is a measure of where investors think the Fed will set rates over the next 10 years, plus or minus an amount to reflect the risk of being wrong.
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James MacKintosh,
WSJ,
12 July 2021
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The margin of error was plus or minus four percentage points.
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Ian Fisher,
Bloomberg.com,
2 Jan. 2022
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The results of the question in this release have a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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Timothy Fanning,
San Antonio Express-News,
21 Sep. 2021
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The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
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Maria Halkias,
Dallas News,
8 July 2021
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The poll's margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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Merdie Nzanga,
USA TODAY,
26 Apr. 2022
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The poll's margin of error was plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.
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Michael R. Wickline,
Arkansas Online,
24 Sep. 2022
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The survey of 823 adults had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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Jennifer Peltz,
USA TODAY,
10 Nov. 2021
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The margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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Virginia Langmaid,
CNN,
28 Sep. 2021
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