numbers game

Example Sentences

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You start to understand that it’s systemic, and it is a numbers game.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2025

It’s a numbers game, meticulously filling notebooks in handwriting Silverman describes as “tiny letters all perfectly the same size,” then revisiting and sharpening material until the joke emerges, like a vision.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2025

"It's also making the point that in the numbers game, China will always be ahead of smaller countries with smaller navies and Australia's navy is at a historic low."

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2025

But it’s still a numbers game and the transfer portal has reduced the already slim odds of getting a Division I basketball scholarship.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2023

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.