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methodology

[meth-uh-dol-uh-jee] / ˌmɛθ əˈdɒl ə dʒi /


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The organisation says this is because it has a different methodology and asks more direct questions than most other polls, which it says are more conceptual in nature.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

Determining the future of the supply gap is tricky when there’s no agreed-upon methodology for measuring it.

From Barron's Jun. 28, 2026

McCain, a major french fry supplier, faced potato shortages due to climate events and intensive farming, prompting a revamp of its growing methodology.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 2026

When discussing QVMS’s methodology, Kalivas said the fund was designed to achieve better returns than the S&P Small Cap 600 Index, “with slightly less risk.”

From MarketWatch Jun. 16, 2026

Although happy to praise his methodology, many maintained that he had found not the age of the Earth but merely the age of the materials from which the Earth had been formed.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

“Given all the other index providers bending over backwards to change their methodologies, it’s good to see S&P DJI not make any changes,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch Jun. 5, 2026

One wrinkle in the race to commercialization is the number of competing quantum methodologies.

From Barron's May 21, 2026

Without speaking to any specific studies, Levine said that different methodologies could yield contradictory results.

From Salon May 15, 2026

"Those sorts of sequencing methodologies are not available everywhere," she added.

From BBC May 14, 2026

Scientists in those fields tend to be ignorantly disdainful of fields to which those methodologies are inappropriate and which must therefore seek other methodologies—such as my own research areas of ecology and evolutionary biology.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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