number crunching

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Recent Examples of number crunching This plasticity provides an alternative pathway to learning, one that differs from the approaches used by neural networks that rely on extensive number crunching. — Mike McRae 19, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2026 As close cycles compress and reporting accelerates, finance professionals can spend less time on reconciliation and number crunching and more time on analysis and business partnership. — Hemant Kapadia, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026 The stream — called the Kornacki Cam — provides unadulterated number crunching without any pundits weighing in. — Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026 In this case, instead of having equipment capable of all that processing power stored in massive warehouses, each satellite in orbit would do a small part of the number crunching and then beam the final results back to the ground. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026 Setting the odds for a game was more a matter of delicate intuition than wonkish number crunching. — Dan Piepenbring, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026 Opponents said Antoni — who has spent most of his career at right-wing think tanks — lacked the expertise in statistical number crunching that's typical of previous BLS commissioners. — Scott Horsley, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025 Pretraining is where most of the number crunching happens, and what follows is usually fine-tuning, which refines the model for specific tasks. — Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for number crunching
Noun
  • Successful candidates will then be invited to spend a day at the bank’s offices where they are tested on banking regulation, their use of AI, and their ability to build calculations.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Given the same borrower information, loan program, property details, and applicable rules, the calculation and decision should generally remain consistent.
    — Ethan Stone, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Brain games, crosswords and math puzzles are often promoted as ways to sharpen memory, but neurologists warn that generic exercises may not address the specific cause of mental fog.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Among the region’s six largest districts, only Folsom Cordova Unified cleared the halfway mark in English, and none did in math.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • There is no indication that the parliamentary arithmetic in the City Council has shifted in favor of a head tax this year.
    — Chris Tye, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • And those costs are making the arithmetic of life too difficult for everyday people.
    — NBC news, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • These figures therefore should not be treated as interchangeable measures of payload capacity.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
  • More than 1,500 businesses were affected nationwide, according to the FCD figures.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026

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“Number crunching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/number%20crunching. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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