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Recent Examples of numeric
Reporting on inflation isn’t all that useful when the percentages tossed about like numeric salad with a light panic vinaigrette are unaccompanied by more context and comparison.
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Erik Sherman, Forbes, 23 June 2021
The state’s overall community college and university headcount dropped by about 123,000 students — the largest numeric decrease of any state.
—Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
From the insight derivation or analytics perspective, the structure provides the right data type (i.e., nominal, ordinal or numeric).
—Prashanth Southekal, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
For water used for industrial purposes, the changes remove specific numeric standards for pH, chloride and hardness and replace them with a narrative description.
—Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
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Erik Sherman, Forbes, 23 June 2021
The state’s overall community college and university headcount dropped by about 123,000 students — the largest numeric decrease of any state.
—Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
From the insight derivation or analytics perspective, the structure provides the right data type (i.e., nominal, ordinal or numeric).
—Prashanth Southekal, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
For water used for industrial purposes, the changes remove specific numeric standards for pH, chloride and hardness and replace them with a narrative description.
—Jennifer Bjorhus, Star Tribune, 9 Apr. 2021
See All Example Sentences for numeric
Recent Examples of Synonyms for numeric
Noun
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At the heart of the dispute are voters who did not supply a valid state ID or the last four digits of their Social Security number when registering to vote.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 2025
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Moore equipped his pinball machine setup with the flexibility of a computer—one arrangement of bumpers might calculate the first thousand digits of pi, and another might compute the best next move in a game of chess.—
Charlie Wood,
Wired News,
6 Apr. 2025
Noun
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According to tracking, the tentpole is headed for a domestic debut in the $63 million to $77 million range, with a target number of $70 million.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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Her individuality brushed off on a huge number of people.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Unlike the more familiar real numbers – positive and negative integers, fractions, square roots, cube roots and even numbers such as pi – complex numbers have an imaginary component.—
William Ross,
The Conversation,
10 Mar. 2025
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Hilbert’s 10th problem is undecidable for every ring of integers.—
Joseph Howlett,
WIRED,
9 Mar. 2025
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“Numeric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numeric. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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