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
Instead, groups like Sumner’s, such as the Smiths and Echo & the Bunnymen, ignored what was going on in the mainstream altogether, leaving the numbers game to pop music.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 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
Hibernian now say they'll reduce the number of away tickets issued for certain fixtures - they, like others in recent years are playing the numbers game.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 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.
