How to Use by numbers in a Sentence
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Hundreds of people are buried in the Hinds County pauper's field in graves marked by numbers.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
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After that, an export boom could see BYD soon become the world’s number one car brand by numbers.
—Carlton Reid, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2023
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Her impact will never be measured by numbers alone, though.
—Mike Anthony, courant.com, 13 Dec. 2020
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With Friday the 50th anniversary of Arbor Day, what once was just a pleasant rite of spring has morphed into a race by numbers.
—Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2022
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However, at the heart of the book lie 10 diagrams for garden designs, a sort of paint by numbers that anyone can follow.
—Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Mar. 2021
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For some, a true No. 1 wide receiver is determined by numbers.
—Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 6 June 2022
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Nelson rules that jurors will remain anonymous and will be referred to by numbers only.
—CNN, 14 Feb. 2022
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On a day in February, her teacher, Mrs. Sharon Lenahan, counts the students off by numbers, breaking them into small groups to work on math packets.
—Hannah Drown, cleveland, 27 Sep. 2022
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The trophy isn’t decided by numbers, but Robertson’s impact on the Stars’ season was impacted there as well.
—Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 9 May 2023
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The motion asks that jurors be referred to by numbers during proceedings.
—Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online, 14 Feb. 2022
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The body count in southern Turkey is so high that graves are being marked by numbers instead of names as the authorities expedite burials.
—Bloomberg.com, 10 Feb. 2023
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Young men’s lives celebrated by people who knew them as teammates and brothers and friends and people who knew them only by numbers on a jersey, by talent and exploits on the field.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Nov. 2022
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The potential jurors were only identified by numbers, not their names.
—Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2022
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Identified in court only by numbers, both people were summoned to jury duty in the trial over Arbery’s slaying.
—NBC News, 23 Oct. 2021
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Their statistics may be represented by numbers but their contributions to the city's sports landscape cannot be measured.
—Alex Harrison, The Enquirer, 24 June 2022
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Under the setting sun, dozens of men perform funeral prayers for victims only identified by numbers.
—Sarah Sirgany, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
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After all, the negative effects for which Murray apologized—the suppression of turnout, the fomenting of complacency—might just as easily have been caused by numbers that held up in the end.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022
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After all, the negative effects for which Murray apologized—the suppression of turnout, the fomenting of complacency—might just as easily have been caused by numbers that held up in the end.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Feb. 2022
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Both Coogler and Curry thrive in industries ruled by numbers—either court stats or box office figures—yet this focus on the quantifiable is what Underrated pushes against.
—WIRED, 27 July 2023
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The report released Thursday does not name school employees directly, instead listing them by numbers.
—Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
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Far too often, the humanity of those inside gets shoved aside—or supplanted by numbers—in discussions about the criminal legal system.
—Abigail Glasgow, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2023
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As measured by numbers, each Habitat for Humanity homeowner earns only 30% to 80% of the area's median income.
—Jim Riccioli, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 May 2022
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Wilt Chamberlain, as any casual hoops fan knows, is a legendary figure defined by numbers, fitting given how often he was accused during his career of being all about, well, numbers.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 July 2023
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Since then, through adolescence and into adulthood, my self worth has been dictated by numbers: weight, waist circumference, calories in, calories out, fasting blood sugar, ketones, dress size, jeans size, grams, ounces, macros, percentages.
—Smriti Mundhra, ELLE, 13 Sep. 2022
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But his value was something not necessarily measured by numbers.
—Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2021
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Quantifying antisemitism right now by numbers of hate crimes is useful, but doesn’t capture the peculiar anguish and human complexities of its day-to-day pervasiveness.
—Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
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Analytical personalities are often driven by numbers and figures and want to base their decisions on facts.
—Nicholas Freund, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
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Scientific knowledge, as measured by numbers of papers published, has been estimated to double every 17.3 years.
—Erin McCreary, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2023
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Technocrats proposed the abolition of all existing economic and political arrangements—governments and banks, for instance—and their replacement by engineers, who would rule by numbers.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
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The buildings are identified by numbers, designated in historical order of construction.
—Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
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