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

The 328 senators of the previous 50 years have illustrated the tyranny of the bell-shaped curve: a few of them dreadful, a few excellent, most mediocre.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2022

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

They do not end up in the “classic” bell-shaped curve Siraj and I were expecting.

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