Synonyms for three-fourths
three-fourths

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1. three-fourths, three-quartersnoun

   three of four equal parts

   "three-fourths of a pound"

   Synonyms:
   three-quarters

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1. List of paraphrases for "three-fourths":

   three-quarters, threequarters

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1. Arthur Schopenhauer:

   We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

2. Senator Dole:

   I believe there are certain qualities that veterans have, and when Bush was president, I think about three-fourths of Congress were veterans and we would stick together and work together across the aisle. And President Bush was President Bush. So we got quite a lot done.

3. Wallace Stevens:

   To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.

4. Jessica Levinson:

   Trump thinks ‘our country is going to hell.’ Well, there is likely little more than a chance in hell that we are going to amend the Constitution, amending the Constitution is one of the most serious things that lawmakers can do. Therefore the path to doing it is rightfully arduous. I would put the chances … as beyond a longshot. To be sure, changing the Constitution, the supreme law of the land, would require a two-thirds vote in Congress, then ratification from three-fourths of state legislatures. It could also be changed through a constitutional convention in which at least 34 states convene to vote on an amendment, which would then need ratification from a minimum 38 states. Trump since announcing his candidacy in mid-June has made illegal immigrants from Mexico a top concern and has suggested several solutions -- including a wall along the southern border and the change to birthright citizenship.

5. Anthony Barnosky:

   We have the potential for making massive change... and the bottom line is that we can't be the generation responsible for wiping out three-fourths of life forms on the Earth.