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

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

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 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

Perhaps the most poignant example I have heard lately about why the numbers game is still important came from MC Spano, a US tech firm boss who now mentors other women in the sector.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 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.