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percentage
Commerce the interest, tax, commission, or allowance on a hundred items
percentage [pər′sen·tij]
(mathematics)
The result obtained by taking a given percent of a given quantity.
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I don't know if it's because there's now more pressure on coaches to win at all costs, but a lot of teams are preferring to kick and play the percentages.
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Every shot you do have to think about - you can miss it in some spots that are just impossible to get up and down from, you have just got to play the percentages and know that on some holes, par is going to be a good score for the week," he added.
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His high-risk style of play and refusal to play the percentages can be infuriating at times, but there is no doubt that he is a highly talented performer at his best - he made the semi-finals of the US Open in 2005.
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