How to Use quintile in a Sentence

quintile

noun

• But that's no longer a dwelling that falls in the city's high-price quintile.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 26 June 2022
• Those in the lowest income quintile could lose 49% of their tax gains.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 June 2018
• By contrast, the next-best performers (those in the fourth quintile) earned just 9%.
  — Mohamed Kande and Lang Davidson Of Pwc, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
• Note: Income ranges are rounded and are based on quintiles.
  — Laura Saunders, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• Recent wage gains have been fastest for workers in the bottom quintile.
  — Jason Furman, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2018
• The second quintile got a 1% income boost and a $320 reduction in their tax bill.
  — Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN, 26 Apr. 2021
• Only 4% of people who were raised at the bottom quintile of income ever make it to the top one.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 22 Jan. 2020
• In the fourth quarter, household income in the bottom quintile plunged 17.7%.
  — Washington Post, 18 July 2019
• Meanwhile a quarter of households in the middle quintile would see their tax bills rise.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 18 Oct. 2017
• My VO2 max put me in the upper quintile of fitness for 50-year-old American males.
  — Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 4 Feb. 2014
• The top quintile has seen its after-tax income rise by only 213%.
  — Phil Gramm and John Early, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2021
• Still, there are some signs of hope for the counties that the group rates as the most economically distressed quintile.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2019
• The average incomes for those in the second quintile — a proxy for the working-class — rose faster than any other group.
  — Karl W. Smith, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2019
• Lazzara wrote that 19 of the cities in the index were in the top quintile of historical experience.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2021
• Pinto estimates that roughly 80% of the wealth effect goes to the highest quintile.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2022
• In Richard Chetty’s landmark study of 20 million Americans, one in 10 black kids who grew up poor made it to the top two quintiles of earners as adults.
  — Dasia Moore, Quartz, 20 Dec. 2019
• Nearly a third of students who graduate from HBCUs will move up at least two income quintiles from their parents by the age of 30.
  — Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024
• The richest quintile — those just below the top 1 percent — had a similar gain of nearly 80 percent.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2018
• Of those in that bottom quintile, in part because more women are alone, their numbers are 4.6 million vs. 3.3 million men.
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 17 Aug. 2017
• Many of those under-savers are in the top two income quintiles and shouldn’t be government’s top priority.
  — Anne Tergesen, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2017
• Arguably the worst impacts of the welfare state arise from the systematic exclusion of the least-skilled quintile of working-age people from the workforce.
  — Mario Loyola, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
• The death rate was in the highest quintile among countries globally, but slightly better than many of its Balkans neighbors.
  — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• And valuations for strong balance sheet stocks compared to weak balance sheet stocks now rank in the top quintile in Goldman's data.
  — WSJ, 11 Feb. 2019
• Another is to look at the middle three quintiles of the income scale — leaving the bottom 20 percent as lower class and top 20 percent as upper class.
  — Jonathan Tamari, Philly.com, 2 Nov. 2017
• Before adding the value of education to household balance sheets, 53% of student debt is held by households in the bottom quintile of wealth.
  — Preston Cooper, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2022
• Meanwhile, nearly one-quarter of households in the middle quintile of the income ladder would see their tax burdens increase.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 12 July 2017
• Around half is held by the top lifetime-earnings quintile among workers, while the bottom earnings quintile holds only around 1 percent.
  — Brett Christophers, Time, 23 June 2023
• Even through mid-May, as state economies began to re-open, employment among bottom-quintile workers was down by about 30% from February, the researchers write.
  — Craig Torres, Bloomberg.com, 27 June 2020
• Of all workers in the highest quintile of earnings, 37% take Social Security at 62.
  — Scott Burns, Dallas News, 14 Mar. 2021
• The study also doesn’t identify earnings cutoffs or shares of income for the different quintiles.
  — Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 14 June 2019

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024