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quantify

[kwon-tuh-fahy] / ˈkwɒn təˌfaɪ /


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"I think we've discovered a new model of global biodiversity change. Now we'll need to see just how widespread this could be in Earth's history and how we can quantify its impacts," Larsson said.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

The bigger issue is what those gaps signal about the private interactions that are far harder to quantify: the phone calls that don’t get returned, and the meetings where less gets shared.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

“Have them make a budget and quantify what they need. Then review it with them, and make sure you feel good about the plan,” she said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

Really, “flooded” doesn’t begin to quantify the deluge.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

It bothers Mira that she cannot quantify this scientifically, that she cannot prove it one way or another.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The SEC yield quantifies the latest 30 days of a portfolio’s investment income net of expenses, annualized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

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

"We used a simple and very low-cost technique that quantifies the 'darkness' of fossil pollen and spores, a so-called Palynomorph Darkness Index."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026

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

An HHS report released in August quantified how medical markets respond to taxes, prices and payment incentives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Loneliness and social isolation can cut almost six healthy years from your life, according to a study that quantified the impact of social problems that often plague older adults.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

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 angle of his nose is quantified with a wooden protractor.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

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

The surest sign of market dislocation is when banks start quantifying their exposure to a given issue.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 24, 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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