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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
statistics
/stəˈtɪstɪks/
noun
a type of mathematics that provide specific information or prove something
- “There are many numerical errors in the most recent statistics.”Tatoeba
- “According to statistics, world population is on the rise.”Tatoeba
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Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)