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quantify

[kwon-tuh-fahy] / ˈkwɒn təˌfaɪ /


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

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

It didn’t identify the facilities involved or quantify any impact on oil production or exports.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

“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 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

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

“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

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

She described the figures as "incredibly concerning", with the true impact of artificial intelligence on the workplace yet to be quantified.

From BBC Sep. 7, 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

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

Those four sets of factors constitute big environmental differences that can be quantified objectively and that are not subject to dispute.

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

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

From MarketWatch Feb. 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

Yet the stock market has historically had a hard time quantifying the consequences of these types of risk, which helps explain the rather blasé reaction to unprecedented events.

From Barron's Jan. 14, 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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