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
"In Lloyds, it will simply become a numbers game and staff will be hounded out of the business. We've seen it before," it said.
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025
Instead, groups like Sumner’s, such as the Smiths and Echo & the Bunnymen, ignored what was going on in the mainstream altogether, leaving the numbers game to pop music.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2025
In the end, like cricket itself, it’s a numbers game and America has always been keen on very big numbers.
From BBC • May 29, 2024
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.
