How to Use methodological in a Sentence

methodological

adjective
  • Amongst all of this noise, a few sources stand out for their consistency and methodological rigour.
    Francois Botha, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025
  • Part of this is due to methodological flaws, such as sample selection bias.
    Will Flanders, National Review, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Why did editors not ask how sound was this methodological approach?
    Sarah Wild, Quartz Africa, 29 July 2019
  • From a methodological point of view, that is the responsible stance.
    Seán Mfundza Muller, Quartz Africa, 9 June 2020
  • Second, not all of the methodological changes hurt Chile’s standing.
    The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • There’s a methodological divide over how to define the problem.
    Eric Roston, Bloomberg.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • That’s because the studies have been both few in number and beset with methodological problems.
    Hilda Bastian, Wired, 8 Apr. 2020
  • The difference between them may be more methodological than anything else.
    Sigal Samuel, Vox, 4 June 2024
  • If it’s done in the right way, this low-level, super in-the-weeds methodological stuff won’t deliver headlines.
    John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2024
  • This is now the focus of the methodological arm of my research, along with finding ways to reduce the impact of bots in research.
    Melissa Simone, STAT, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The gap between the two is accounted for by three methodological differences (see chart).
    The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Key issues were biases in study design and methodological flaws.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2021
  • What’s clear, in hindsight, is that Culbertson faced a perfect storm of methodological flaws.
    cleveland, 26 Dec. 2022
  • But researchers soon pointed out methodological flaws in the analysis.
    Genevieve Hofmann, The Conversation, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Most pollsters did believe Clinton would win, and there were methodological errors.
    Dan Kopf, Quartz, 5 Aug. 2020
  • But similar methodological flaws are common in a wide swath of machine learning research.
    Casey Ross Reprints, STAT, 2 June 2021
  • But the dollars and cents that result are downstream of a crucial methodological difference.
    Jordan McGillis, National Review, 24 Mar. 2021
  • To be fair, tax records can give an incomplete picture, but the problem is more political than methodological.
    Quoctrung Bui, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2016
  • That between the patches, there is no methodological explanation for it.
    Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
  • No doubt, such rankings can be arbitrary and subjective, and there may indeed be some methodological problems.
    Time, 20 June 2023
  • They won’t be solved with either scale or some clever methodological trick that doesn’t change the underlying architecture.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 2 July 2024
  • The magazine ran no legal risks by telling its readers how not to commit suicide, so its editors filled many pages with methodological caveats.
    Anne Fadiman, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • At the broadest level, of course, science deploys all the methodological elements.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2021
  • Select those dynamic leaders who are open to trying new things and direct them to implement basic methodological steps with their teams.
    Ross Shelleman, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • To be clear, these are the kind of procedural, methodological matters that coffee adherents fight duels over.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 22 Jan. 2020
  • The monthly payroll numbers have been especially volatile through the first part of this year – in part due to weather, labor strikes and methodological changes.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 8 May 2026
  • Other throwaways made it on the list thanks to Bieber’s gamesmanship or Billboard’s methodological quirks.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026
  • But scholars in the field have pointed to significant methodological weaknesses in many of these research papers.
    Brian W. Stone, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The methodological gold standards for estimating race are algorithms based on a series of skull measurements, such as widest breadth and facial height.
    Alan Goodman, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2020
  • Flo reports that the reliability of their findings stems from the methodological rigor behind each study.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 11 May 2026

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