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[kwon-tuh-fahy] / ˈkwɒn təˌfaɪ /


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The rapid popularity of e-bikes has also made it difficult for law enforcement agencies, regulatory groups and medical officials to quantify what injuries were being caused by e-bikes.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

To quantify a career like Neill’s is impossible, but “Jurassic Park” points to a trend that spanned his filmography, even defined it.

From Salon Jul. 17, 2026

Dr Alexander Zargaran, an NHS plastic surgeon and researcher at University College London, set out to quantify one of the largest parts of the market: Botox.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

However, those figures can only be rough estimates, given that nearly all retailers have declined to quantify their tariff refund impact.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

The most straightforward extension of this book will be to quantify further, and thus to establish more convincingly the role of, intercontinental differences in the four sets of factors that appear to be most important.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

From Slate Jun. 16, 2026

But a new report from the Washington Post quantifies what many people have sensed: Trump’s use of profanity, insults and combative language has grown much worse since his return to power in January 2025.

From Salon May 26, 2026

About the author: Isaac Stone Fish is the CEO and founder of Strategy Risks, a firm that quantifies corporate exposure to China.

From Barron's Jan. 7, 2026

But how Riley quantifies that production remains unclear.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 19, 2024

Writing is often clearer and more elegant when a writer pushes an only or a not next to the thing that it quantifies.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

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

From Slate Jun. 17, 2026

For example, the Goldman note highlighted that 54% of companies discussed AI productivity on their first-quarter earnings calls, but only 11% quantified the benefits, while even fewer, just 2%, quantified the impact on earnings.

From MarketWatch Jun. 11, 2026

“It’s silly to go to these lengths and damage the environment for no quantified risk,” said Grant Smith, the managing director of the Sharklife Conservation Group in Sodwana Bay, South Africa.

From The Wall Street Journal May 31, 2026

But the bottled oxygen conferred other benefits that weren’t so easily quantified.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

A Stanford A.I. index study released this week did the useful work of quantifying just how big a gap there is in sentiment toward A.I. between the people working on it and the general public.

From Slate Apr. 14, 2026

This is the first direct evidence quantifying how much Antarctica's climate has cooled since that ancient warm period.

From Science Daily Nov. 5, 2025

Apple CFO Kevan Parekh responded that Apple’s hybrid approach wouldn’t change and that the company is “expecting increases in our CapEx spending related to AI investments” without quantifying the amount.

From Barron's Oct. 31, 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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