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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a working figure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a figure or statistic that is currently valid or functional, often in contexts involving data, calculations, or representations.
Example: "The report includes a working figure for the projected sales growth over the next quarter."
Alternatives: "an active figure" or "a valid figure".
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That's a metric that is across-the-board not a working figure, given that Mr. Obama wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan.
UNICEF has adopted a working figure of 10,000 children associated with such armed groups.
Of these, 2391 (thus, 2400 is used as a working figure below) will have the fracture types suitable for inclusion into the RCT.
For internal purposes we therefore concluded with a working figure in the lower half of the range of 'approximately 25%' (See Table 2).
We estimate across 18 centres there will be 6066 patients (6000 is used as a working figure here) with a proximal humeral fracture over the 18 months of recruitment.
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"An awful lot of kids would be better off taking a gap year — traveling, working, figuring out what to do," he said.
At the end of treatment, 77% of experimental participants had returned to work, and 3-month follow-up measures indicated a return to work figure of 86%.
A total of 7.4 million people are in poverty, despite being in a working family – a figure that has risen by one million over the last decade.
Mr. Bloomberg has established a working group to figure out how the city should rebuild and how to respond to future storms.
Then get to work figuring it out.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com