quantify
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Extensive peer-reviewed science has used sophisticated techniques to quantify the impacts of pollution reductions and account for related uncertainty.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2026
The British broadcaster is demanding that Trump's legal team produce financial documents in order to quantify the damages suffered.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
The rapid popularity of e-bikes has also made it difficult for law enforcement agencies, regulatory groups and medical officials to quantify what injuries were being caused by e-bikes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
So how do you quantify the 'best' - is it goals, drama, superstars at their peak?
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
That meant that you calculated the cost of a public health project or medical procedure and tried to quantify its effectiveness.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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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
“She quantifies her work to the voters as her primary reelection strategy,” Dutson said.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
“Jamie and I would talk every day after he brought this role for me. I didn’t want to be measured on VAR,” which stands for “value at risk,” a statistical measure that quantifies financial risk.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 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
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How much would actually have been paid back to Fifa as an "annual license payment" referred to in a flow diagram in the charts, but not quantified?
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
By measuring the chemistry of rivers draining the mines, they quantified the extent of acid mine drainage and how much of the water was neutralized through mineral reactions that produce carbon dioxide.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
The small acts of resistance that you quantified stuck out to me.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2026
For example, the Goldman note highlighted that 54% of companies discussed AI productivity on their first-quarter earnings calls, but only 11% quantified the benefits, while even fewer, just 2%, quantified the impact on earnings.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
Those four sets of factors constitute big environmental differences that can be quantified objectively and that are not subject to dispute.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
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
Early research quantifying the economic impact of ICE raids in Oxnard estimates direct crop losses of $3 billion to $7 billion with significant spillover into other sectors of the economy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
"This isn't about just stress relief or relaxation; this is about fundamentally changing how the brain engages with reality and quantifying these changes biologically."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 7, 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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