numbers game

Example Sentences

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Baseball is a numbers game, and GA didn’t have enough of them.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2026

It is a numbers game, but maybe, let’s think about the numbers like this.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

"In the end, it's a numbers game and a space game," Carrick explained.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026

If the case for appointing new cardinals under the next Pope is a numbers game then Scotland's case is not helped by its declining Catholic population.

From BBC • May 7, 2025

Instead, the staff played a sterile numbers game, seeking to impose a strict ratio everywhere.

From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by MacGregor, Morris J.