How to Use quantification in a Sentence
quantification
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That said, the logic of an impact is solid, even if quantification is soft.
—Bill Conerly, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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The doctors, who are sometimes women and sometimes men, meet with me at the point of my body’s peak quantification.
—Longreads, 17 Sep. 2019
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The essence of the approach is the recognition of context and quantification.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 6 July 2021
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His daughter becomes her lover, and both of them must deal with the fallout of his constant quantification of what — and who — is worth saving.
—Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
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Snap’s success speaks to a backlash against the quantification of everything.
—Will Oremus, Slate Magazine, 19 Oct. 2017
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Now is the time to say specific things and propose a specific quantification.
—Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
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There’s no official quantification of how large methane emissions from retreating glaciers around the world could be.
—Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2023
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While this is great for one person, the other person already knows plenty and would rather learn about the quantification side of marketing.
—Michael White, Forbes, 5 July 2022
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One of the things that stuck out to me was your critique of the way that people have this insatiable desire for self-optimization and self-quantification.
—Sarah Todd, Quartz, 26 Aug. 2021
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Time’s optimists, by contrast, claim to base their sunnier outlook on precise quantification.
—Anthony Gottlieb, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2019
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The quantification of fiber loss is performed through gravimetric analysis.
—Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
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The mapping of emotional and behavioral states to these biomarker values could be the basis of our quantification framework.
—Vibhu Sharma, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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The easier quantification is, the better the algorithms work.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 July 2021
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But the element that Jeffery brings to the Eagles offense is one of those football things that defies quantification.
—David Murphy, Philly.com, 14 Sep. 2017
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And yet these wearable trackers, with all their data and quantification, feed a desire for a more scientific look into one’s personal health.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
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But if quantifying the impact still feels too daunting the actual quantification might not be essential.
—Jeff Wilser, Time, 13 Oct. 2022
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Such inquiry takes time and stubbornly resists quantification; its effects are complex and diffuse, embedded in the long arc of a doctor’s moral life.
—Rachel Pearson, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
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Take the pressure off your operational risk, resilience and cyber teams — most risk quantification analyses aren’t meant to be done manually.
—Bruce Dahlgren, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
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These practices move wellness toward quantification.
—Ascend Agency, Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2025
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Eriksen and Coffin did their quantification by gathering reams of previous data on plastic samples from across the world’s oceans.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 8 Mar. 2023
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Like every other 21st-century discourse, modern movie love leans on quantification, on metrics, on math.
—A.o. Scott, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
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The hallmark of this kind of goal is quantification, as a well as an overall punitive feeling that has more than a whiff of industrialism and the Protestant work ethic.
—Hazlitt, 8 Mar. 2023
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The trouble starts with a confused and simplistic attack on empirical science and quantification.
—Nick Romeo, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2022
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This is essentially the quantification of onomatopoeia, like in the Adam West Batman series.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 24 May 2018
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School grades, social-media likes, and employee-performance reviews are all forms of quantification that turn people into data and use scores to shape behavior.
—Josh Wilbur, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
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For Outside readers, the big question lurking in the background is whether that trade-off—a little more quantification, a little less serenity—is worthwhile.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 14 Dec. 2020
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System Shock 2 has an unstoppable cyborg protagonist and a role-playing game’s love of quantification.
—Adi Robertson, The Verge, 11 Aug. 2019
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For customers anchored in value, having a platform that streamlines quantification of the value delivered is essential.
—Jim Berryhill, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
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Some slides deal with the quantification of pauses in rock music, but most are about Alison’s family, narrating backstory and present-day tensions.
—Lauren Oyler, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022
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Congress should also demand clarification of how fee waivers are processed, and quantification of the delay in processing due to applying for a fee waiver.
—Jill Goldenziel, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
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