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Recent Examples of numeric
The airport’s alpha-numeric category designates the maximum landing speed and wingspan of aircraft for which the facility is designed.
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Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2021
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.
—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
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Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2021
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for numeric
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Those two titles are the only ones in the group’s discography to make it to triple digit stays on this purchases-only roster.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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Even with the sore digit, Tucker belted a pitch to right field in the third inning with his eyes on a triple, but the ball got stuck in the ivy and was ruled a double.—
Jeff Vorva,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2025
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Going forward, the software upgrades will be named after the year, rather than taking the number after that of the previous release.—
Andrew Williams,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Jun 09, 2025, 8:21 PM PDT Number of National Guard troops in LA rises to 1,700 The number of National Guard troops on the ground in the Los Angeles area has risen from 300 to 1,700, the Defense Department said in an update Monday evening.—
Oren Oppenheim,
ABC News,
9 June 2025
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Graphically, this can be represented a little better if ∅ symbolizes the empty set: 0 = ∅ 1 = {0} = {∅} 2 = {0, 1} = {∅, {∅}} 3 = {0, 1, 2} = {∅, {∅}, {∅, {∅}}} Zermelo has thus laid the foundations for integers.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
9 May 2025
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The software ran an instance that forced it to convert a floating-point number into an integer.—
Korok Ray,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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“Numeric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numeric. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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