How to Use quant in a Sentence

quant

noun

• But, every quant on the right makes that point from time to time.
  — Wilfred Reilly, National Review, 11 Dec. 2023
• But that doesn’t mean the quants aren’t doing something valuable.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 13 June 2023
• Other banks that built a following with quants were damaged as well.
  — Hugh Son, Bloomberg.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• The number of quants is excessive.
  — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 4 Jan. 2026
• Not since the early adapters and the quants learned that much of the orthodoxy of hitting was stone-cold wrong.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• The quants and their algorithms may have taken over Wall Street.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
• JPMorgan quants say risks are growing for a bond short-squeeze.
  — Joanna Ossinger, Bloomberg.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• Roth, who is 32, comes off as the Broadway equivalent of a quant.
  — Boris Kachka, Vulture, 16 May 2024
• Really, though, how did the quant put that together so quickly?
  — refinery29.com, 4 June 2018
• The players who had qualified weren’t all oddball quants and gamblers.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2016
• The quants have beaten the spread in 10 of the last 14 Super Bowls.
  — Josh Petri, Bloomberg.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• For some quants, comfortable in the world of numbers but not metaphors, this might prove intimidating.
  — Chris Ballard, SI.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Wells Fargo's quants think the Patriots will win the Super Bowl.
  — Josh Petri, Bloomberg.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• Here’s what one of the world’s top quants has to say about how robots are taking over global financial markets, and his great hopes for the technology.
  — Amy Gunia / Hong Kong, Time, 21 Dec. 2019
• One quantitative analyst, or quant, estimates the failure rate in live tests at about 90%.
  — Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2019
• After enjoying a record-breaking year betting against bonds—hoping to profit from rising yields and interest rates—some quants are nearly back to square one.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2023
• Girardi wanted to bench the slumping slugger, while Cashman and his quants suggested Carter deserved a longer leash.
  — Alex Putterman, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2017
• Behind the models employed by quants are algorithms, or investment recipes, that automatically buy and sell based on pre-set inputs.
  — Gunjan Banerji, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2018
• On many trading floors, quants are gaining respect, clout and money as investment firms scramble to hire mathematicians and scientists.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 22 May 2017
• Three years ago quant funds became the largest source of institutional trading volume in the American stockmarket (see chart 2).
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2019
• To Mazlish, a finance quant turned life sciences entrepreneur, the work seemed amenable to automation with a computer program.
  — Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
• Activist investors have long employed big data, a team of quants and high-speed computers to find vulnerable boards to bully and cajole into changing strategy.
  — Adrian Croft, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2020
• The quants were supposed to provide a pathway out of the thicket of bad narratives, but that hope came from a fundamental misunderstanding of what the models were trying to measure.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 13 June 2023
• Over more than a century, quant has evolved from a purely theoretical concept to a practical approach to investing in financial markets.
  — Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
• The Kubota team cycles through all three – field visits, focused group discussions, and structured quant – because each answers a different question.
  — Stephen Wunker, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• In the 40 years that have passed since James published his first treatise on baseball statistics, the debate between the quants and the traditionalists has been dour and joyless.
  — Jay Caspian Kang, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2017
• To be sure, risk parity is traditionally employed by quants who use more complicated inputs and a longer-term horizon that wouldn’t be subject to any sudden shift in correlation.
  — Dani Burger, Bloomberg.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• Managers are the game’s aristocrats, powerless next to the Ivy League quants who have become the faces of their franchises but comparatively divine.
  — Chris Jones, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017
• Picking stocks well enough to beat the overall market is very difficult, even for super-smart Wall Street quants who spend hours a day poring over data and staring at Bloomberg machines.
  — Thomas Heath, Washington Post, 19 July 2019
• About 10 years ago Facebook created a team of engineers, product managers and quants whose sole job was to identify all the things that convinced users to spend time on Facebook and tell their friends about it.
  — Fred Vogelstein, WIRED, 30 Mar. 2018