numbers game
Example Sentences
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It’s no longer a pure numbers game for the company.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
It’s a numbers game, meticulously filling notebooks in handwriting Silverman describes as “tiny letters all perfectly the same size,” then revisiting and sharpening material until the joke emerges, like a vision.
From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2025
If the case for appointing new cardinals under the next Pope is a numbers game then Scotland's case is not helped by its declining Catholic population.
From BBC • May 7, 2025
In the end, like cricket itself, it’s a numbers game and America has always been keen on very big numbers.
From BBC • May 29, 2024
Instead, the staff played a sterile numbers game, seeking to impose a strict ratio everywhere.
From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by MacGregor, Morris J.
