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quantify

[kwon-tuh-fahy] / ˈkwɒn təˌfaɪ /


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“There is no hard information Mr. Jassy or anybody else has to quantify a market that didn’t even exist three years ago,” Luria said.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

It's tricky to quantify and varies by location - estimates suggest it could be anything from hundreds of pounds to £10,000 on average extra, external a year.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

The EPA is continuing to fully quantify and consider the compliance costs for affected industries, even though those costs are subject to many of the same uncertainties as the benefits.

From Slate Aug. 2, 2026

However, Bill fails to quantify what he expects the team to achieve?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

“We could quantify the machine, but not the human. That’s where cognitive neuroscience really started.”

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

California’s recyclable packaging law prohibits manufacturers from using a “chasing arrows” recycling symbol on products or materials unless they are actually being recycled in a meaningful way, which the law quantifies.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 2026

“She quantifies her work to the voters as her primary reelection strategy,” Dutson said.

From Slate Jun. 16, 2026

Those investments changed the complexion of Lisbon and Porto, as land values rose and the cities’ housing markets were reshaped, according to the report, which quantifies these changes.

From Barron's Dec. 23, 2025

The platform combines artificial intelligence, infrared technology, and a mathematical model that quantifies heat flow to better identify areas of heat loss in buildings.

From Science Daily May 15, 2024

Likewise, the logician would argue, You only live once should be rewritten as You live only once, with only next to the thing it quantifies, once.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

And just 2% of firms quantified the impact of AI productivity on earnings, a similar share to the first quarter of 2026.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

How much would actually have been paid back to Fifa as an "annual license payment" referred to in a flow diagram in the charts, but not quantified?

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

The small acts of resistance that you quantified stuck out to me.

From Slate Jun. 17, 2026

Measurement is a key holdup for some big brands because returns on creator campaigns can’t be quantified as easily as for traditional TV commercials.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 27, 2026

These systems were modeled on the theories of Frederick Winslow Taylor, an industrial engineer, who argued that companies should be run “scientifically,” with each worker’s task minutely analyzed and quantified.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

“Q2 results showed a small and statistically insignificant difference in earnings growth between the companies quantifying AI productivity gains this quarter and other S&P 500 companies,” Goldman says.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

To call his latest film a contemporary masterwork would be true, but there’s also no quantifying the magic McElwee conjures here, no comparing it to anything else.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

By quantifying that threshold, ALFA-K turns genome doubling from a descriptive observation into a predictable evolutionary event.

From Science Daily Jan. 26, 2026

One particular challenge in these cases is quantifying compensation for people who received no mental-health treatment at all, said lawyer Steve Cohen, who represents several plaintiffs.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 26, 2025

Donders’s writing at the time shows an ebullient quality, such as when he describes the challenges of quantifying mental processing.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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