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
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
Misra says even relatively minor technical failures can affect candidates in ways that are difficult to quantify.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 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
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“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
As hard as Glasnow throws, his fastball plays up because of his way-above-average extension, which quantifies how much closer a pitcher’s release point is to home plate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
This technique essentially quantifies the abundance of proteins in cells under various conditions, allowing the researchers to compare the protein profiles of the mutants with those of wild-type cells across different growth phases.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 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
Passive-income endeavors aren’t quantified on their own in government labor statistics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 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
In the intended reading, the negation operator not has scope over the universally quantified proposition “All doors will open.”
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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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
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
Yet the stock market has historically had a hard time quantifying the consequences of these types of risk, which helps explain the rather blasé reaction to unprecedented events.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
One particular challenge in these cases is quantifying compensation for people who received no mental-health treatment at all, said lawyer Steve Cohen, who represents several plaintiffs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
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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