How to Use quantification in a Sentence
quantification
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The essence of the approach is the recognition of context and quantification.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 July 2021
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The doctors, who are sometimes women and sometimes men, meet with me at the point of my body’s peak quantification.
—Longreads, 17 Sep. 2019
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His daughter becomes her lover, and both of them must deal with the fallout of his constant quantification of what — and who — is worth saving.
—Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
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One of the things that stuck out to me was your critique of the way that people have this insatiable desire for self-optimization and self-quantification.
—Sarah Todd, Quartz, 26 Aug. 2021
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Snap’s success speaks to a backlash against the quantification of everything.
—Will Oremus, Slate Magazine, 19 Oct. 2017
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While this is great for one person, the other person already knows plenty and would rather learn about the quantification side of marketing.
—Michael White, Forbes, 5 July 2022
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But the element that Jeffery brings to the Eagles offense is one of those football things that defies quantification.
—David Murphy, Philly.com, 14 Sep. 2017
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This is essentially the quantification of onomatopoeia, like in the Adam West Batman series.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 24 May 2018
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The hallmark of this kind of goal is quantification, as a well as an overall punitive feeling that has more than a whiff of industrialism and the Protestant work ethic.
—Hazlitt, 8 Mar. 2023
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There’s no official quantification of how large methane emissions from retreating glaciers around the world could be.
—Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2023
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In some ways, risk quantification is a science: Its building blocks are statistics, math and software systems.
—Bruce Dahlgren, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
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The easier quantification is, the better the algorithms work.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 July 2021
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Newbold acknowledges the criticisms of PBs, but feels that the importance of the study is the quantification of biodiversity loss.
—Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2016
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For Outside readers, the big question lurking in the background is whether that trade-off—a little more quantification, a little less serenity—is worthwhile.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 14 Dec. 2020
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Care seems as removed from quantification as the cared-for person’s sensations of weakness or pain seem removed from statistics class.
—Longreads, 17 Sep. 2019
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Relevant data might not be available at the moment but can be collected over time so quantification and measurement of ROI can be achieved and can get even better.
—Kim Bozzella, Forbes, 16 May 2022
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Tucker believes that Recorde introduced Britain to the concepts of quantification and data in ways that were unfamiliar and world-changing.
—Esther Inglis-Arkell, Ars Technica, 9 July 2017
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Eriksen and Coffin did their quantification by gathering reams of previous data on plastic samples from across the world’s oceans.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2023
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But all these are mere quantifications and chit-chat regurgitation.
—Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Dec. 2017
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Take the pressure off your operational risk, resilience and cyber teams — most risk quantification analyses aren’t meant to be done manually.
—Bruce Dahlgren, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
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Some slides deal with the quantification of pauses in rock music, but most are about Alison’s family, narrating backstory and present-day tensions.
—Lauren Oyler, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
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Time’s optimists, by contrast, claim to base their sunnier outlook on precise quantification.
—Anthony Gottlieb, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2019
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But if quantifying the impact still feels too daunting the actual quantification might not be essential.
—Jeff Wilser, Time, 13 Oct. 2022
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School grades, social-media likes, and employee-performance reviews are all forms of quantification that turn people into data and use scores to shape behavior.
—Josh Wilbur, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
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Like every other 21st-century discourse, modern movie love leans on quantification, on metrics, on math.
—A.o. Scott, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
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System Shock 2 has an unstoppable cyborg protagonist and a role-playing game’s love of quantification.
—Adi Robertson, The Verge, 11 Aug. 2019
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But the quantification of senior deaths adds new context to Brown’s decision prioritizing teachers for vaccinations amid her push to get kids back in classrooms.
—oregonlive, 18 Apr. 2021
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Congress should also demand clarification of how fee waivers are processed, and quantification of the delay in processing due to applying for a fee waiver.
—Jill Goldenziel, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
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The trouble starts with a confused and simplistic attack on empirical science and quantification.
—Nick Romeo, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
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But the state lacked the ability to perform THC quantification tests, leading Katz to ask state’s attorneys to try to delay marijuana trials as much as possible, seek more lenient pleas, or even dismiss charges in some cases, if need be.
—James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 19 Aug. 2021
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