quantify
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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
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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
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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
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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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