numbers game

Example Sentences

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Dating is a numbers game; the more you swipe on the apps, the more matches you get, the more dates you have.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

It’s no longer a pure numbers game for the company.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

“It’s just a numbers game there,” O’Brien said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 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

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.