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on average

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1. on average - Adverb

2. on average - Phrase

Meaning

typically

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Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If religion makes a society happier, there's no data to show that. All we see is that on average countries that are well off are less religious and are happier; and that goes for U. S. states as well. Checkmate, religionists. Jerry Coyne

Experienced well-being is on average unaffected by marriage, not because marriage makes no difference to happiness, but because it changes some aspects of life for the better and others for the worse. Daniel Kahneman

When men do all the outside work, they contribute on average about 10 percent of housework. But as their share of outside work falls, their share of housework rises to no more than 37 percent. George Akerlof

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do. James Levine

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day. Jerzy Kosinski

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