numbers game

Example Sentences

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People talk a lot about how it’s just a numbers game: You have to go on more dates, you have to swipe on more people.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

It is a numbers game, but maybe, let’s think about the numbers like this.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

Perhaps the most poignant example I have heard lately about why the numbers game is still important came from MC Spano, a US tech firm boss who now mentors other women in the sector.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2024

But it’s still a numbers game and the transfer portal has reduced the already slim odds of getting a Division I basketball scholarship.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2023

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.