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• If that’s not going to happen, crunch numbers to see if unpaid time off is viable.
  — Vicki Salemi, Boston Herald, 6 Apr. 2025
• Crafty folks that crunch the numbers swear the Chargers could still make the postseason.
  — Jay Paris, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• When airlines offer miles on sale, take the time to crunch the numbers and check for award availability.
  — Paul Rubio, AFAR Media, 20 Dec. 2024
• This is not just another tech upgrade; Gen AI can do much more than crunch numbers.
  — Mohamed Madkour, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
• Any effort to crunch the numbers would be time-intensive, the EFF found.
  — ArsTechnica, 10 July 2025
• Question your assumptions, crunch the numbers, and map out consequences.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
• Scientists who work in labs, and have to run experiments or crunch numbers, can famously work long hours.
  — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2024
• But the more researchers crunch the numbers, the more this period is looking like the 1970s.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2022
• Or pulling out a calculator to crunch the numbers in the Woods Center report.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
• There’s also a new Number Pad, that provides a Bluetooth pad to key punch and crunch numbers with.
  — Jason Cipriani, CNN Underscored, 1 Oct. 2020
• Most major media outlets around the country rely on a handful of organizations to crunch the numbers and make race calls.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
• Some do not have certified public accountants on staff and rely instead on lawyers, offshore workers or software to crunch the numbers.
  — Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 26 May 2023
• But Lovelace recognized that a machine designed to crunch numbers could do much more if the numbers represented other things.
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 4 June 2024
• If stats are your things, actuaries crunch numbers to assess risks for businesses like insurance companies.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 24 June 2020
• The chief financial officer and accounting team may crunch the numbers and determine that senior employees will be culled.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• Supporters say those claims are misleading, and that large public companies will likely rely on consultants to crunch the numbers.
  — Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2022
• With the new system, officials no longer have to pause the system to tally votes, which meant tabulators had to stop counting ballots to crunch numbers every four hours.
  — Rob O'Dell, The Arizona Republic, 4 Aug. 2020
• The researchers crunch the numbers and derive an estimate that every dark matter filament in the cosmic web probably has had a pair of jets that are similar in scale.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2024
• The next step is to actually crunch the numbers, and then to grapple with the moral implications of a hypothetically conscious universe.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2021
• As a kid, Darlene Cavalier was more interested in cheerleading and dancing than in learning how to crunch numbers and snag awards at science fairs.
  — Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2022
• Pick your favorite guideline, such as the 4% rule, and crunch the numbers with the help of an online retirement calculator, or consult a financial advisor.
  — Tanza Loudenback, wsj.com, 9 Oct. 2023
• People got wind of it and started it a week later, a month later — there was some ovulation participation going on and Buckley was starting to crunch the numbers.
  — Ali Lerman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
• The former Aspen city councilman and onetime financial trader sat down and began to crunch numbers on the farthest right and farthest left politicians in the country.
  — Elizabeth Findell, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
• There are many ways to crunch the numbers, and the only way to know a person’s final price after subsidies are included is to take income and family situation into account.
  — Ariel Hart, ajc, 1 Dec. 2021
• Nonetheless, Yocom and other experts said public and non-profit groups have begun to crunch the numbers and demonstrate to the public just how detrimental gun violence is to their lives.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2021
• But a new study published this week in Scientific Reportssuggests there’s more to coding competency than the ability to crunch numbers.
  — Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2020
• Data analysts get police reports on shootings early each morning and crunch the numbers ahead of a daily meeting between federal agents, local police and prosecutors.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 3 Feb. 2023
• These platforms crunch the numbers on everything from the spring auction results to downward trends in Rolex pricing, to market activity on specific models and references.
  — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 25 June 2024
• But despite the high-wattage cast and McKay’s enviable track record, the project is facing some headwinds at studios, with several having already passed on it while others are taking their time to crunch numbers.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023
• Then her personalized care team convened to crunch the numbers and build a personalized blueprint encompassing training, nutrition, sleep, behavioral science, medicine, and more.
  — Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan, Outside Online, 9 May 2025