How to Use mathematical in a Sentence

mathematical

adjective
  • The team has only a mathematical chance of making the play-offs.
  • They recorded the changes with mathematical precision.
  • To that point, the Aztecs still had a mathematical chance of winning the MW.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2021
  • What are the problems that stand in the way of training a mathematical AI?
    — Christoph Drösser, Scientific American, 8 June 2024
  • One of Poggio’s concerns goes back to the mathematical concept at the heart of a KAN.
    — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Black Moon Lilith is a mathematical point in the sky that is considered to be the shadowy aspect of the moon.
    — Lisa Stardust, People.com, 3 Oct. 2024
  • At least, that’s the idea in the mathematical world of chaos theory.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 25 Jan. 2021
  • The new finding, by contrast, has the force of a mathematical proof.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2024
  • The first part is the bedrock deep beneath the tower, which is made of hard mathematical problems.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 25 July 2025
  • The team wanted to home in on the mathematical rules that conjure the most common coral structures.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2025
  • In this model, miners compete to solve complex mathematical puzzles, and the first to succeed earns the right to add the next block to the chain.
    — Tomer Niv, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • In the mid-nineties, Wall Street was emerging as a place where mathematical minds could excel.
    — The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2021
  • But the outcome felt as true to me as a mathematical equation.
    — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2022
  • In further mathematical analysis, the team says that the test could have helped up to 53% of men avoid biopsies.
    — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 29 Jan. 2025
  • McIlroy had a mathematical chance to return to No. 1 in the world, but only by winning.
    — Doug Ferguson, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2024
  • There are mathematical models that suggest that is a way to do that.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 26 May 2021
  • West has yet to make enough ballots to have a mathematical chance of winning the 270 Electoral College votes needed to clinch the White House.
    — Will Weissert, Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Their work joins a handful of other trigonometric proofs that were added to the mathematical archives over the years.
    — Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
  • To find out, Gore and his colleagues reached for one of the first mathematical models in ecology.
    — Gabriel Popkin, Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2025
  • Tonight: Write down the mathematical equations of your life.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2020
  • One of the biggest mathematical discoveries of the past year was the proof of a new, tighter upper bound to Ramsey numbers.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Stockwell: Arizona has one of the largest ratios of counselors to students, and that mathematical fact needs to change.
    — Madeleine Parrish, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The team used this data and fed it into a mathematical model of rock physics, which is used on Earth to map underground oil fields and aquifers.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Aug. 2024
  • To make this work, the mass of the tachyon has to be imaginary, but in the mathematical sense: Its mass would be multiplied by a factor of the square root of negative one.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Then the software must store each part of the mathematical phrase as a separate variable that can be acted on.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2020
  • One is technical: Is [the tool] valid and reliable in a sort of mathematical sense?
    — Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
  • The dual meaning of the phrase (one-off vs. one off) seemed like a fun mathematical twist for some self-referential clues.
    — Deb Amlen, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The process takes weeks and dozens of trials to perfect by tweaking the mathematical formula each time.
    — Alexander Freeling, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2022
  • With the field for the Tour Championship cut to just 30 players, Scheffler has a higher mathematical chance of winning.
    — Hannah Vanbiber, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Proof tells the story of a young woman navigating her late father’s mathematical genius and mental illness.
    — Dave Quinn, People.com, 21 Aug. 2025

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