How to Use parameter in a Sentence
parameter
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There was this parameter: the towns had to have at least 25 sales both this year and last to make the list.
—Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 3 Sep. 2019
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Time to outline the parameters, to set the goals that must be met.
—Miami Herald, 31 July 2025
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Cars are lashed to the deck via airline track that runs the parameter of the trailer.
—K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 2 Feb. 2022
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The only parameter was that the creations had to fit through the gallery doors.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2020
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The parameters of that bill — and future bills like it — are still up for grabs.
—Makena Kelly, The Verge, 11 June 2018
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Step 3: Use shoes to build a parameter around the inside of the suitcase.
—Marissa A. Ross, Bon Appetit, 29 Aug. 2017
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Just make sure that the odds fit the parameters outlined above.
—Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025
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The s is a parameter that depends on the roughness of the ball's surface.
—Rhett Allain, WIRED, 24 June 2018
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The parameters of that area have not yet been made public.
—Pete Bigelow, Car and Driver, 27 Mar. 2018
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The parameters of the treatment were, to say the least, idiosyncratic.
—Longreads, 1 May 2018
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Read about the debate parameters agreed upon by the Trump and Biden campaigns — and who will get the last word.
—Andrew Torgan, CNN, 23 June 2024
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That was the case for the parameter that Lai and Cowen-Breen were trying to determine.
—Quanta Magazine, 12 Apr. 2022
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The parameters, though, were discussed in depth around the start of the season, which began early for the Cubs with the Tokyo Series.
—Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
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In the case of Jamaica, Beryl very narrowly missed hitting the parameter that would have caused the bond to pay out.
—Greg McKenna, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2024
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What were the creative parameters set up for his scene?
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 7 July 2025
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Set clear parameters for high-risk actions All this is not to say that the protest movement did not take risks.
—Kevin Yam, Quartz, 10 July 2019
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Without an active route, the car will look at these same parameters for up to four miles ahead on the current road.
—Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 11 Jan. 2018
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The profile is the second parameter that the Royals use with their new slogan.
—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 18 Feb. 2024
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The Ethics Committee outlined the parameters of the probe.
—Ronald J. Hansen, azcentral, 9 July 2018
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The score for the second of those two parameters makes up the remaining 30 percent.
—Carissa D. Lamkahouan, Houston Chronicle, 23 Sep. 2019
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There were no parameters, rules, or regulations set at all about what should be put in the film or what should be left out of the film.
—Julie Miller, HWD, 24 July 2017
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The goal of getting there fits within the parameters of Beyers’ one-at-a-time approach.
—Kyle Neddenriep, Indianapolis Star, 15 Jan. 2020
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Is that because that way the song already has parameters around it?
—Cathy Applefeld Olson, Billboard, 12 June 2019
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With that, the tracker.example cookie gets passed through a URL parameter and then gets stashed as a first-party cookie on the landing page.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2022
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Once this check has been passed, the attacker will need to provide the backup nonce as well as a type parameter.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 18 Feb. 2022
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The strength of connection of each neuron to its neighbor is a parameter of the network called weight.
—Kate Saenko, Quartz, 24 Dec. 2020
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One of the great things about the show is that within its bizarre set of parameters, nothing really can be too much.
—Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 13 July 2019
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The new law comes after a years-long effort to reach an agreement on its parameters.
—Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 8 Aug. 2025
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Its parameters call for enough energy to power the equivalent of 80 homes for 10 years.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2025
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One reason that small-town library research works so well is because of its natural parameters.
—Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
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