How to Use statistical in a Sentence

statistical

adjective
  • At this stage in the season, a loss like this cannot be read as a mere statistical blip.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 22 Feb. 2026
  • The pull is more than statistical.
    Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2026
  • There’s a statistical answer for all of it.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Flacco had one of the best statistical games of his career.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
  • But perhaps that is the wrong statistical benchmark to lean on here.
    Arpon Basu, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • Fisch didn’t rely on any statistical data to make those calls.
    Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The statistical sample size just isn't there to give a good answer one way or the other.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
  • But there’s nothing in this team’s statistical profile that screams fluke.
    Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 28 June 2024
  • The result has been the best statistical offense in baseball over the last month.
    Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 8 Aug. 2021
  • The problem is with each car added, the greater the statistical chance of a collision.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 20 July 2025
  • That being said, there’s strong statistical evidence that one seat has a slight edge above the rest.
    Diana Hubbell, Popular Science, 21 Aug. 2025
  • But this season is, so far, the best statistical campaign of his career.
    Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
  • The evening is set to present crucial tests for both candidates in a race that polls show to be in a statistical dead heat.
    Brian Bennett, TIME, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Each player led the team in those statistical categories for the game.
    Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Those two factors could blunt his statistical impact to some degree.
    Jake Ciely, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The silence is statistical and stark.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 11 May 2026
  • The statistical power that comes with such numbers enabled the team to make two key advances.
    Angus Chen, STAT, 21 May 2024
  • What was thought may be evidence of a water vapor plume could just be statistical noise.
    Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Houston is ranked near the top of the league in most statistical categories for pass and rush defense.
    Matt Schooley, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • That stat is a little bit of a statistical oddity.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 21 Dec. 2025
  • But there is further statistical data that shows a rise in the inflation rate.
    Giovambattista Scuticchio Foderaro, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • This is not an accident or a mere statistical anomaly.
    Adam B. Summers, Oc Register, 1 June 2026
  • This is not an accident or a mere statistical anomaly.
    Adam Summers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • There were mistakes, sure, but as a whole, the passing game did look a lot better from a statistical standpoint.
    Matt Cohen | [email protected], al, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Rosen’s class—a statistical rarity in this country and in the state—ticks every box.
    Time, 8 June 2022
  • The team’s study has also gone through the peer review process, lending weight to the statistical findings.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Cook is the only player in the nation to reach those two statistical standards in the same game this season.
    Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 29 Nov. 2022
  • If the month was a statistical oddity, in hindsight, wasn’t worth thinking about too much.
    Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 30 Dec. 2025
  • But Kelce was a statistical anomaly at age 36.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2026
  • And just one study found a statistical connection between heartburn and the amount of hair a baby is born with.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025

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