How to Use cruncher in a Sentence

cruncher

noun

• In desperate need of shooting for years, Demps added a pair of floor-crunchers in Rondo and Tony Allen.
  — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• And numbers crunchers will get ready for the data influx that comes only once a year.
  — Michael Marot, The Seattle Times, 14 May 2017
• The number-crunchers were working at the Capitol Thursday as a crowd of about 300 gathered outside to protest the cuts that took effect with the start of the new fiscal year on July 1.
  — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• But the budget office's number crunchers do not expect such lofty growth rates anytime soon.
  — Alan Rappeport, Alaska Dispatch News, 14 July 2017
• Then, just to make sure, Strode grinds Myers' body to a pulp in a giant car-cruncher as her fellow Haddonfield residents look on.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2022
• But now some number crunchers see signs of trouble in its shifting business model.
  — Tom Metcalf, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2017
• CricViz’s number-crunchers have found some evidence for the first two theories.
  — M.j., The Economist, 18 July 2019
• The initial data suggested Rossi would come up two laps short, so Rossi had to trust what the number-crunchers were telling him about conserving fuel.
  — Michael Marot, sacbee.com, 24 May 2017
• But as the 2018 campaign gets under way this weekend, the number-crunchers in Las Vegas see things a little differently.
  — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
• As the campaign's top data cruncher, Oczkowski sat in front of a computer and performed real-time analysis of precinct data to stay ahead of state calls and to spot any trouble on the horizon.
  — Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker Washington Post, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
• The probability, per MLB.com and the data-crunchers at Statcast, was 99 percent.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 May 2018
• Next up, Estately’s data crunchers surveyed the houses for sale in the cities and determined the percentage of men and women who could afford to buy based on the median salary in the city for each gender.
  — OregonLive.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• That means those estimates can get out-of-date, said Rick Foster, Medicare’s former chief actuary, or top number-cruncher.
  — Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, The Seattle Times, 1 Oct. 2018
• In later years, that amount could be reduced if an independent number cruncher agreed that less was needed to meet the city's goal of having 90 percent of the assets needed to pay benefits over the next 40 years.
  — Monique Garcia, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Gonzalez, a seasoned numbers-cruncher, has deep knowledge of state government, its health care policies, and its budget.
  — Frank Phillips, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Marathon times are getting slower, says RunRepeat data cruncher Paul Ronto, and the correlation to climate change is clear.
  — Amanda Loudin, Outside Online, 15 Aug. 2019
• If the idea of an unsatisfying retirement is upsetting, the number crunchers at SmartAsset have released a new ranking that should help calm those nerves.
  — Ben Baxter, AL.com, 1 June 2017
• Every year since 2011, GAO number-crunchers have looked at federal programs that overlap, are fragmented or are duplicative.
  — Joe Davidson | Columnist, Washington Post, 1 May 2017
• As a result, number-crunchers are looking at how to cut TSA programs or staffing without jeopardizing security.
  — Barbara Peterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Mar. 2017
• Social Security recipients are likely to see a cost of living increase of about 2.4 percent next year, said government number-crunchers who produced the report.
  — Richardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Andrew Taylor, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2018
• Ben Affleck stars as Christian Wolff, an enigmatic mathematics savant with special-ops-caliber skills who moonlights as a numbers cruncher and launderer for drug cartels.
  — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 10 June 2017
• Its initial streaming-borne success caused confusion among that chart bible’s number-crunchers, who removed it from and eventually reinstated it to their country charts earlier this year.
  — Maura Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2019
• London’s financial industry would be lost without number-crunchers from Italy, India and Indiana.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• Obama’s defeat of Mitt Romney particularly infuriated Rebekah Mercer, who concluded that the pollsters, the data crunchers, and the spin doctors were all frauds.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2017
• Budget crunchers are looking at all aspects of the fiscal 2019 White House budget, including how foreign assistance helps support U.S. security interests.
  — Jason Lyall, Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2018
• Some number-crunchers had speculated the greater increase in Democratic voters stemmed from a contested presidential primary, while Trump is unopposed.
  — Darrel Rowland, Cincinnati.com, 21 Apr. 2020
• Today’s Orientalist is more likely to be a number-cruncher who studies police reports on terrorist suspects and calculates degrees of radicalization.
  — Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books, 20 May 2019
• Ashley Madison employs 170 people, mostly data crunchers.
  — Lynnley Browning, Newsweek, 11 Oct. 2013
• In 2015, House Republicans required nonpartisan congressional number crunchers to use dynamic scoring as well as static scoring on major bills.
  — Jim Puzzanghera, latimes.com, 24 Apr. 2017
• Marroquin’s group is fully funded by UPMC and is embedded within its clinical network, eliminating the distractions of vying for outside research grants common among data crunchers in rival hospital systems.
  — Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024