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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Those in the bottom income quintile, meanwhile, would see their taxes actually tick up by $10.
    Martha C. White, NBC News, 8 May 2017
  • For the bottom two quintiles of the wealth distribution, however, inflation remains a nightmare.
    Will Daniel, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2023

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