How to Use quantitative in a Sentence

quantitative

adjective
  • Scientists are gathering quantitative information about human intelligence.
  • And when that happened, the Fed here in the U.S. did quantitative easing.
    CBS News, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The index is the first-of-its-kind, quantitative measure of the financial health of women in the U.S.
    Sallie Krawcheck, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2022
  • But his proof didn’t put any quantitative upper bound on how hard the problem could be.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Jump Crypto is part of the Jump Trading Group, a quantitative trading firm.
    Michelle Toh, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The students will learn marketable field and quantitative skills.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2022
  • At the same time, he’s quietly built a sizable fortune with a side bet on quantitative trading.
    Ben Stupples, Fortune, 20 July 2023
  • Talk turned from the pursuit of quantitative fact to the slipperiness of objective truth.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Odey is among a group of macro traders enjoying a stellar year as central banks start to unwind years of quantitative easing.
    Nishant Kumar, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The rigor and exactitude of academic research in a quantitative field in a place like MIT wasn’t fun.
    Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Alameda was a quantitative trading firm founded by Sam Bankman-Fried in 2017.
    Byluisa Beltran, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Likewise, Jim Simons, whose quantitative Medallion fund has accrued one of the best track records in the business, doesn’t share any of the code for his magic algorithms.
    Daniel Rasmussen, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
  • For about a year now the Fed has been practicing quantitative tightening (QT) to bring down sticky inflation rates.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The book presents a mix of qualitative and quantitative data, from statistics to interviews out in the field.
    Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Rather than use a quantitative tool to comprehend the dead, visitors experience the scale of death in terms of their own time and energies.
    Wired, 22 July 2022
  • With quantitative tightening in full force, the large bond supply to be absorbed is adding to a rapid rebuilding of term premium, the strategists say.
    WSJ, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Combine the qualitative insights from the focus groups with the quantitative metrics from the surveys.
    Gleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023
  • All of which provide a quantitative measure of how well the compressed video matches the original video in terms of visual quality.
    IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2023
  • If the Bank of England does too much bond buying to help the pension funds, that could be seen as quantitative easing, adding cheap money into the financial system and hurting the pound.
    Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2022
  • His defense team now has the task of convincing a jury that their client, a quantitative savant, missed something of such importance.
    Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Bankman-Fried had just launched Alameda Research, a quantitative trading firm, and Pack was in talks to be the firm’s first institutional investor.
    Byluisa Beltran, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • But the usual quantitative measures — death and infection data — tell only part of the story.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
  • Masayoshi Amamiya, the deputy BOJ governor, knew better than to take a gig requiring him to unwind roughly 23 years of quantitative easing.
    William Pesek, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • But that understates the scale of the change, because the European Central Bank will no longer gobble up huge quantities of bonds through quantitative easing.
    WSJ, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Today, the excess reserves in the banking system is $3.6 trillion because of all the quantitative easing that the Federal Reserve has done.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • Google argued that the case should be dismissed on the grounds that its business doesn’t meet the government’s quantitative definition of monopoly.
    Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 28 Apr. 2023
  • In the years after 2008, the Fed innovated in its usage of quantitative easing and its development of the federal funds rate.
    Aaron Regunberg, The New Republic, 19 May 2022
  • Carnegie Mellon's Nicolas Christin, a quantitative researcher of dark-web drug markets with an especially long track record, isn't so sure.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The sales, known as quantitative tightening, or QT, unwind years of bond purchases by the bank known as quantitative easing, or QE.
    Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Even quantitative tests mark, at most, a comparison between what the test-maker thought the student should know and the effectiveness of instruction.
    WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023

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