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quantify

[kwon-tuh-fahy] / ˈkwɒn təˌfaɪ /


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While there isn’t any data to quantify its frequency, as Walsh pointed out, if a phone call does happen, it’s becoming increasingly more common to text before you call.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

Being able to quantify the lifelong impact of student debt could have an impact on how Americans think about the “return on investment” of borrowing for higher education.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

"Volcanoes work in a similar way, and my lab is trying to quantify these processes."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

There are very few studies done on biotherapies, and what is out there is primarily inconclusive or acknowledging the results as too complex to quantify.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

The pistol was more useful, but the cane brought Kaz a relief he didn’t care to quantify.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

It’s a topic that has certainly been discussed, but the paper quantifies that shift, finding nonaligned countries have moved nearly one-third of total reserve portfolios away from foreign-currency claims.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

I noticed that many of your previous papers cover the gray vireo, which your new study quantifies as a “drab,” understudied bird.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2025

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

The findings, published in Integrative Organismal Biology, provide the first quantified evidence that free swimming sharks can detect and orient away from sounds in the acoustic far field.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

So far this earnings season, 11% of S&P 500 companies quantified the impact of AI productivity on a specific use case, such as coding or customer support, Goldman notes.

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

By measuring the chemistry of rivers draining the mines, they quantified the extent of acid mine drainage and how much of the water was neutralized through mineral reactions that produce carbon dioxide.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

In the intended reading, the negation operator not has scope over the universally quantified proposition “All doors will open.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

The 253-page report examines the purported scientific advances in quantifying the extent to which CO2 emissions contribute to natural disasters and extreme weather.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

"CMDR's laboratory is equipped with state-of-the-art chemical instrumentation for quantifying and characterizing microplastics in environmental samples," explains Lynch.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026

While some firms like Gartner face higher AI risk, others like ServiceNow and IBM are quantifying AI-driven margin improvements.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

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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