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quantify

[kwon-tuh-fahy] / ˈkwɒn təˌfaɪ /


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It is difficult to quantify how common the practice is, says the Guild of Property Professionals, a trade group of independent estate agents, but it has issued guidance on how to use AI enhancement responsibly.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

"I think we've discovered a new model of global biodiversity change. Now we'll need to see just how widespread this could be in Earth's history and how we can quantify its impacts," Larsson said.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

While there isn’t any data to quantify its frequency, as Walsh pointed out, if a phone call does happen, it’s becoming increasingly more common to text before you call.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

He often replies that after years of tracking his time in six-minute increments, he is glad to no longer quantify how he spends it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

The most straightforward extension of this book will be to quantify further, and thus to establish more convincingly the role of, intercontinental differences in the four sets of factors that appear to be most important.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The SEC yield quantifies the latest 30 days of a portfolio’s investment income net of expenses, annualized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

It’s a topic that has certainly been discussed, but the paper quantifies that shift, finding nonaligned countries have moved nearly one-third of total reserve portfolios away from foreign-currency claims.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

California’s recyclable packaging law prohibits manufacturers from using a “chasing arrows” recycling symbol on products or materials unless they are actually being recycled in a meaningful way, which the law quantifies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

"The quantum Fisher information quantifies how sensitively a quantum system responds to a change," explains Bühler-Paschen.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026

Likewise, the logician would argue, You only live once should be rewritten as You live only once, with only next to the thing it quantifies, once.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The company expects to incur one-time charges that will be quantified at a later date.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The findings, published in Integrative Organismal Biology, provide the first quantified evidence that free swimming sharks can detect and orient away from sounds in the acoustic far field.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

She described the figures as "incredibly concerning", with the true impact of artificial intelligence on the workplace yet to be quantified.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Bridgestock and colleagues instead looked at acid mine drainage, a common side effect of mining that, despite being well understood, had never been formally quantified before this study.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

The correlation between expectation and delivery of desire could no doubt be quantified into some kind of mathematical formula.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan

To call his latest film a contemporary masterwork would be true, but there’s also no quantifying the magic McElwee conjures here, no comparing it to anything else.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026

The 253-page report examines the purported scientific advances in quantifying the extent to which CO2 emissions contribute to natural disasters and extreme weather.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

While some firms like Gartner face higher AI risk, others like ServiceNow and IBM are quantifying AI-driven margin improvements.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

The surest sign of market dislocation is when banks start quantifying their exposure to a given issue.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 24, 2026

Donders’s writing at the time shows an ebullient quality, such as when he describes the challenges of quantifying mental processing.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel


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