as in to measure
formal
to find the quantity or amount of (something)
It is difficult to quantify intelligence. Doctors have quantified the risks of smoking cigarettes. It is impossible to quantify the number of websites on the Internet.
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Recent Examples of quantify
Turns out, this disengagement can even be quantified.
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Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2025
While the full extent of their offenses is difficult to quantify, their criminal record is extensive.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 6 June 2025
To reach these conclusions, SmartAsset — a personal finance site — used data from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Living Wage Calculator to quantify the baseline costs of living for single adults and families with two adults and two children.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
While aggregate numbers for retail theft are difficult to quantify, retailers reported 93% more shoplifting incidents on average in 2023 compared with 2019, according to a survey conducted by the National Retail Federation.
—Courtney Reagan,paige Tortorelli,scott Zamost, CNBC, 4 June 2025
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Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2025
While the full extent of their offenses is difficult to quantify, their criminal record is extensive.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 6 June 2025
To reach these conclusions, SmartAsset — a personal finance site — used data from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Living Wage Calculator to quantify the baseline costs of living for single adults and families with two adults and two children.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
While aggregate numbers for retail theft are difficult to quantify, retailers reported 93% more shoplifting incidents on average in 2023 compared with 2019, according to a survey conducted by the National Retail Federation.
—Courtney Reagan,paige Tortorelli,scott Zamost, CNBC, 4 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quantify
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Tools And Frameworks Help Spot Potential Accurately Unlike performance, which is usually measured with data, potential can feel subjective.—
Melanie Hughes,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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To begin with, the atoms being used for error correction have to be moved to a location—the measurement zone—where they can be measured without disturbing anything else.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
20 June 2025
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Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
23 June 2025
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This regulatory blueprint arrives at a sensitive time, just as computing power surges, promising myriad benefits.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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In an email, a spokesperson for Fix the City said the group was assessing the landscape and its options.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
27 June 2025
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Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hun), aka the Front Man, joined the games himself, posing as another desperate stranger in order to better assess Gi-hun’s righteous crusade.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
27 June 2025
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Start with the legal fees, awarding the lawyers $400 million in the settlement, weighed against the paltry sums granted to each of the specific student-athlete plaintiffs.—
Guy Lawson,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2025
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Adrian Perica, the company’s head of mergers and acquisitions, has weighed the idea with services chief Eddy Cue and top AI decision-makers, according to people with knowledge of the matter.—
Sara Braun,
Fortune,
21 June 2025
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“Quantify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quantify. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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