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The qualities that make up a good board of directors—independence, experience, vision, diversity—are easy to define but tough to quantify.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

"DAMM gives us a powerful new way to quantify how those microbial partners contribute to human health and energy balance, and also point at the importance of properly feeding our gut microbes."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

She attributes some of the gender divide to the fact that the two demographics are often presented with different informational realities, though it is difficult to quantify.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Being able to quantify the lifelong impact of student debt could have an impact on how Americans think about the “return on investment” of borrowing for higher education.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

My nail circles the little spintria symbol, and I wonder how Du Barry and the Beauty Minister quantify the price of beauty.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

"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

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

There’s a long history of governments thinking they understand problems because they have extensively quantified them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 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

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

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

“Q2 results showed a small and statistically insignificant difference in earnings growth between the companies quantifying AI productivity gains this quarter and other S&P 500 companies,” Goldman says.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

"By directly observing and quantifying these interactions, our work provides a roadmap for creating more effective therapies."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 7, 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

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