How to Use normal distribution in a Sentence

normal distribution

noun

• Pick something like a normal distribution for step sizes and see if this same stuff works.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 10 Apr. 2018
• That's a normal distribution in sales, and most revenue plans don't account for it.
  — Jeff Winters, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
• Going back to height, the plot to the left shows an idealized normal distribution of height for males.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Dec. 2011
• De Moivre figured out the exact shape of this bell, which came to be called the normal distribution.
  — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 16 Mar. 2026
• There are many naturally arising normal distributions, like the birth weight of babies and the amount of milk that cows produce.
  — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 19 June 2019
• This ends up producing a normal distribution of orbits that are all possible.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 7 Feb. 2025
• The question is not whether a sum of small, independent values would be likely to follow a normal distribution.
  — Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 21 Apr. 2022
• Picture a bell curve—the graph that illustrates a normal distribution, with most of the data congregating at the center, with long tails at the high and low ends.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 June 2021
• Second, the initial velocities will have a normal distribution of speeds and will start off in random directions.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2024
• One consequence of this is that the normal distribution, or bell curve, which says Black Swan events are highly unlikely to happen, no longer holds true.
  — Jemma Green, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
• Gosset recognized that this approach worked only with large sample sizes; small samples of hops wouldn’t guarantee that normal distribution.
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 25 May 2024
• Launching in Singapore and getting to 12 countries would be the normal distribution area for Pixel phones.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2022
• In equity markets, returns and market capitalization do not follow a normal distribution.
  — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 28 Nov. 2025
• With this, the second release of a Fedora Remix, Asahi is becoming an almost normal distribution to install, a reasonable place to compute.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 9 May 2024
• Thinking back to statistics class, remember the normal distribution curve where most people scored in the middle and there were some outliers who performed really badly and others who excelled and got more than 98%?
  — Nida Leardprasopsuk, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• Roth was in part inspired by the Terrifier movies, a slasher franchise made outside normal distribution and marketing channels, and aimed almost exclusively at horror fans.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
• Buying up the supplies and bestowing a vaccine monopoly on state governments blocked the normal distribution channels that connect producers with vaccinators.
  — Star Tribune, 6 Jan. 2021
• Do this for all images in the data set, and an initial complex distribution of dots in million-dimensional space (which cannot be described and sampled from easily) turns into a simple, normal distribution of dots around the origin.
  — Anil Ananthaswamy, Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• As seen in the NASA illustration below of a normal distribution of temperatures, or bell curve, as the average temperature of the planet warms, the curve shifts right.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 14 June 2021
• Assuming a normal distribution that's a 1 in 20 million probability.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2010
• This implies that variation in phenotype is controlled by variation across many genes, and, that the variation itself exhibits gradual continuity (a continuity which can be modeled as a normal distribution of values).
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2011
• Philadelphia’s income distribution is remarkably similar to that of small Pennsylvania towns, which if anything are closer to a statistically normal distribution.
  — Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2018
• The most famous statistical pattern of all is the normal distribution, which takes the shape of a bell curve and describes the statistical distribution of a wide range of uncorrelated events (like heights in a population or scores on the SAT).
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2019
• The researchers modeled solar variability using a normal distribution with a mean of 80% of nominal irradiance and a standard deviation of 12% to capture seasonal and diurnal shifts.
  — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 26 Nov. 2025
• As Scott and his colleagues noted in their paper, if a pathogen grows exponentially and a population receives a statistically normal distribution of exposures to it, then a lognormal distribution of incubation times should result.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Mar. 2018