quantifies

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“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

"They don't identify how much help each eye needs, it just quantifies what level of acuity a child has - what size letters a child can see."

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

I noticed that many of your previous papers cover the gray vireo, which your new study quantifies as a “drab,” understudied bird.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2025

But how Riley quantifies that production remains unclear.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2024

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