How to Use gamification in a Sentence

gamification

noun
  • The trick was to do it in a unique way, hence the gamification.
    Karin Eldor, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • This method of crowdsourcing and gamification has paid off in the past.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2020
  • There’s also a broader field of study around the gamification of daily life.
    Todd Martens Game Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021
  • Zoho has had a gamification feature for a long time, but only as an add-on called Gamescope.
    Alison Barretta, PC Magazine, 28 June 2024
  • So, use a kind of gamification and make people feel and see that changes will be done and the information applied.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The deals include some flashy health tech—including a form of gamification for pain and anxiety.
    Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2020
  • This is how a computer is often thinking, with a gamification sort of mindset.
    Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Fans, in their turn, get a chance to become cocreators, while supporting their favorite artists in an easy and fun way, thanks to gamification.
    Mattias Tengblad, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2021
  • This gamification of meter readings is a clever way to encourage folks to submit them more often.
    Simon Hill, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2022
  • There’s almost a gamification of it.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • This is very much in line with my understanding of how the gamification trend in workplaces operates.
    Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2018
  • This could include the gamification of the league’s games via app, which would arm the league with more data to further engage its audience.
    Mckenna Moore, Fortune, 26 May 2020
  • Their research led them to gamification as a cornerstone for learning.
    Tracey Welson-Rossman, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • Seek to avoid gamification when using AI in this context.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Today, using gamification to teach music seems like a no-brainer.
    JSTOR Daily, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Another complaint from claimants relates to a sense of gamification in the system.
    Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The Acorns and Qapital apps use a more subtle form of gamification.
    Star Tribune, 30 Jan. 2021
  • While Hon warns of the dangers of gamification, his book is not entirely a tech apostate’s account.
    Rhoda Feng, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Pierce also believes there’s something in all of us that loves to win, which is why gamification is so successful in general.
    Ashira Prossack, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • For banks and financial-services companies, gamification is seen as a way to attract younger users.
    Suman Bhattacharyya, WSJ, 10 May 2022
  • The wealth management firms that win the future will be the ones that shift from gamification to thoughtful advice, from access to agency.
    Anmol Verma, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Bergmann cites examples of gamification at work.
    Joe McKendrick, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Track your progress with gamification elements, such as daily streaks, and check a tally of your time spent meditating.
    Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The instant gratification thing is a huge thing in our society, and so is the gamification.
    Scott Thompson, Fox News, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The rest of the industry has been steadily pivoting away from gamification and toward recovery for the past few years.
    Victoria Song, The Verge, 13 June 2024
  • The two-pizza teams represent a more subtle, white-collar version of this gamification.
    Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
  • But founders of apps that use gamification to track and encourage shifts in behavior say that there is already evidence the tools can inspire some changes.
    Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 2 May 2022
  • The gamification of high-yield savings accounts is expected to be a thing as interest rates continue to rise.
    Martine Paris, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The gamification can also encourage users to devise their own tactics to game the system and keep earning—and re-earning—badges.
    Bysharon Goldman, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2024
  • To me, gamification is a scientist who wants to get a lot of data about something and [decides to] turn a lab experiment into a game.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019

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