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quantify

[kwon-tuh-fahy] / ˈkwɒn təˌfaɪ /


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"Volcanoes work in a similar way, and my lab is trying to quantify these processes."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

It didn’t identify the facilities involved or quantify any impact on oil production or exports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

There are very few studies done on biotherapies, and what is out there is primarily inconclusive or acknowledging the results as too complex to quantify.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

“There is no hard information Mr. Jassy or anybody else has to quantify a market that didn’t even exist three years ago,” Luria said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

And there’s no way to quantify the professional gain many scientists have achieved with the help of HeLa.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

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

“She quantifies her work to the voters as her primary reelection strategy,” Dutson said.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026

But a new report from the Washington Post quantifies what many people have sensed: Trump’s use of profanity, insults and combative language has grown much worse since his return to power in January 2025.

From Salon ● May 26, 2026

Writing is often clearer and more elegant when a writer pushes an only or a not next to the thing that it quantifies.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

So far this earnings season, 11% of S&P 500 companies quantified the impact of AI productivity on a specific use case, such as coding or customer support, Goldman notes.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

The small acts of resistance that you quantified stuck out to me.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2026

GE quantified those fears on April 21 when it reported better-than-expected earnings and left its 2026 earnings guidance unchanged, which calls for about 15% earnings growth.

From Barron's ● May 7, 2026

These systems were modeled on the theories of Frederick Winslow Taylor, an industrial engineer, who argued that companies should be run “scientifically,” with each worker’s task minutely analyzed and quantified.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

"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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