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
It is a numbers game, but maybe, let’s think about the numbers like this.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026
If the case for appointing new cardinals under the next Pope is a numbers game then Scotland's case is not helped by its declining Catholic population.
From BBC • May 7, 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
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.
