number cruncher

Example Sentences

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The office — the Legislature’s own highly respected number cruncher — issued a much more pessimistic forecast.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024

For this week's show we asked Richard Hughes - the country's number cruncher in chief who runs the independent Office for Budget Responsibility - how he would answer that big question.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2023

You’re trying to do things as efficiently as possible and I don’t think there’s a lot of appreciation for the benefit that even someone like an Excel number cruncher could have in the organization.

From The Verge • Mar. 23, 2021

On paper, Thomas Owen Staggs is exactly that — a number cruncher.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2015

Whether you were a tree-hugger or a number cruncher, Saumweber reasoned, this was not good.

From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2012