How to Use tabular in a Sentence

tabular

adjective
  • The ones that suffered the most were fast-growing species, like staghorns and tabular corals.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The first is a set of AutoML tools for training models based on vision, text, and tabular datasets.
    Janakiram Msv, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • The tabular iceberg that just broke away from the Antarctic Peninsula is said to be as big as the state of Delaware.
    Peter Coy, Bloomberg.com, 18 July 2017
  • This time, astronomers are even more geared up with algorithms that can crunch the tabular data.
    Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 25 Apr. 2018
  • There is a lot of good work from the early 2000’s from Daphne Koller and others on this, but all of it is based on using things like multiclass tabular data.
    Aparna Dhinakaran, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Just over Spoth’s shoulder a mile-wide tabular iceberg slides past, revealing the piercing cobalt at the berg’s cold center.
    Elizabeth Rush, National Geographic, 7 Mar. 2019
  • The first pair was two horizontal images—one of the tabular icebergs in Antarctica and one of cypress trees in Louisiana.
    Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
  • On the Great Barrier Reef, the surveys suggest that many areas have seen a decline in fast-growing species, such as staghorn and tabular corals, with slower-growing, simpler species left behind.
    Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The tabular iceberg is built like a pancake: large, flat, relatively stable.
    Robbie Gonzalez, WIRED, 9 July 2018
  • The tabular approach provides some standardization but still leaves the interpretation of raw data up to the data consumers.
    Dave Mariani, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Under the proposal, tabular disclosure would no longer be required.
    Mark Maurer, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Named for the famed Russian nesting doll toys, the Matryoshka diamond is a tiny, tabular-shaped diamond encased within a larger diamond.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Oct. 2019
  • DataCebo and Synthetic Data Vault focus on structured (i.e., tabular or relational) text datasets—that is, text data that is organized in tables or databases.
    Rob Toews, Forbes, 12 June 2022
  • Most organizations rely on tabular data modeling with data managed within data warehouse tables.
    Dave Mariani, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021

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