with numbers

phrase

—used with adjectives such as bad, good, etc., to indicate someone's ability at using numbers (such as for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing)

Ask her to do the books, since she's good with numbers.

I've always been lousy with numbers.

Examples of with numbers in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

While there are several ways for a political leader to salvage his or her reputation with numbers, the process is quite different for a business leader. — Jon Michail, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Glasner hopes to operate with a squad of 20 to 22 outfield players, with numbers bolstered by academy kids, and wants everyone in the first-team group to feel involved. — Paul Taylor, New York Times, 28 July 2026

Baldwin is an amateur genealogist who has spent the last five years researching the identities of the roughly 2,200 people who are buried at Blake Street Cemetery, the vast majority of them in graves marked only with numbers. — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2026

Fleet operators evaluating competing systems are working with numbers that are difficult to interpret and impossible to rank against one another. — IEEE Spectrum, 8 July 2026

Rhymes for with numbers

• slumbers