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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
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After registering, your BLINK Membership number (BB + 9 digits) will serve as your access code during the ticket sale on February 27.—
Jenzia Burgos,
StyleCaster,
27 Feb. 2025
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The scoreboard that hangs from the rafters at center ice inside 3M Arena at Mariucci only has two digits that show up in the season record after the final horn blows.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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With fewer business travelers, airlines might reduce the number of flights, charge leisure travelers more or charge less and hope to stimulate demand.—
Christopher Reynolds,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2025
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That marks the highest monthly number of layoffs since July 2020, when 262,649 cuts were announced, the firm added.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
6 Mar. 2025
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The dense text covered various ideas about cryptography, but Thompson (a former mathematics student) was particularly fascinated with a chapter about prime numbers, the crucial integers that make up the foundation of all computer and data coding.—
Jake Kring-Schreifels,
TIME,
5 Mar. 2025
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People got that idea because the May paper claimed to have used a D-Wave system to factor a 50-bit RSA integer.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
30 Oct. 2024
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“Numeric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numeric. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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