bell-shaped curve

Example Sentences

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I just always thought, “Oh, I’ll be on that smallest part of the bell-shaped curve forever and I’ll probably be kind of lonely there. And that’s just what it is in this lifetime.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

Roenneberg has collected data from 300,000 people and found that chronotypes plot as a bell-shaped curve, with a few individuals at each extreme and most falling somewhere in the middle.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2019

Dr. Roenneberg has collected data from 300,000 people and found that chronotypes plot as a bell-shaped curve, with a few individuals at each extreme and most falling somewhere in the middle.

From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2018

This bell-shaped curve is used in almost all disciplines.

From Textbooks • Sep. 19, 2013

“Since there is an equal chance of a marble bouncing left or right at each peg, the marble stacks in the bins below will, on average, form the classic bell-shaped curve of normal distribution.”

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein