numbers game

Example Sentences

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People talk a lot about how it’s just a numbers game: You have to go on more dates, you have to swipe on more people.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 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

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

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.