quantify
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The EPA is continuing to fully quantify and consider the compliance costs for affected industries, even though those costs are subject to many of the same uncertainties as the benefits.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2026
However, Bill fails to quantify what he expects the team to achieve?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 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
Both sides' refusal to apply pressure when the opposition attempted to tease them out is best illustrated by a statistic that looks to quantify how intensely a team presses.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 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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"We used a simple and very low-cost technique that quantifies the 'darkness' of fossil pollen and spores, a so-called Palynomorph Darkness Index."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
“She quantifies her work to the voters as her primary reelection strategy,” Dutson said.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
Those investments changed the complexion of Lisbon and Porto, as land values rose and the cities’ housing markets were reshaped, according to the report, which quantifies these changes.
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
But how Riley quantifies that production remains unclear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
By quantifying that threshold, ALFA-K turns genome doubling from a descriptive observation into a predictable evolutionary event.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 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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