Examples of numeric in a Sentence

Noun in addition to the standard alphabetical letters and numerics, the keyboard features rows of special characters

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective The preprocessing stage involves taking numeric features from social media text. — Naveen Joshi, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021 The GLAAD Social Media Safety Index’s Platform Scorecard used 12 LGBTQ-specific indicators to generate numeric ratings for safety, privacy and expression for the five platforms measured. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 13 July 2022 Powerful computers plug into the Bitcoin network and perform complex mathematical tasks to confirm the legitimacy of transactions, making quintillions of numeric guesses a second. — New York Times, 7 June 2022 The highest numeric drop was in New York City, which lost 305,465 people, or 3.5 percent of its population. — Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post, 26 May 2022 For entrepreneurs, corporate executives and business owners, success is almost always tied to numeric results, earnings, deals closed and revenue accumulated. — Jean-paul Gravel, Forbes, 1 June 2022 Westfield’s numeric population gain was more than double that of second-place Fort Wayne with a growth of 1,805 residents last year. — Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 27 May 2022 The Alamo City topped the nation’s list of numeric gains as 13,626 people relocated here — far outpacing Austin’s relatively small growth of just 1,056 newcomers. — Megan Stringer, San Antonio Express-News, 25 May 2022 Experts at Boston University remind us that using a combination of alphabetical and numeric characters—with uppercase and lowercase mixed in with symbols—helps craft the complexity. — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Labeling his furniture designs with dry numeric codes wasn’t for Jean Royère. — Sarah Medford, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022 The airport’s alpha-numeric category designates the maximum landing speed and wingspan of aircraft for which the facility is designed. — 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 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 There’s a proper numeric keypad for spreadsheet users and an extended cursor cluster. — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021 The sheets filled with numeric and Greek scratchings had quickly overwhelmed his modest desk and were now forming a patchwork wallpaper that spread from that corner and began to wrap around the 8x12 room. — Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2021 See More

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