numbers game
Example Sentences
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"In Lloyds, it will simply become a numbers game and staff will be hounded out of the business. We've seen it before," it said.
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025
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
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
Although the lottery is less of a numbers game and more about luck, participants should keep in mind an important figure: 41 million.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 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.
