number crunching

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Noun
  • The calculations were done in units, which may be individual cans or packs of cans which are usually sold in quantities of five cans, according to the attorney.
    Lucas Dufalla, Arkansas Online, 20 May 2025
  • The office in Jackson, Ky., which was responsible for the area around London, had a March vacancy rate of 25%; the Louisville, Ky., weather service staff was down 29%; and the St. Louis office was down 16%, according to calculations by weather service employees obtained by the Associated Press.
    Bruce Schreiner, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Donna Martin At first, the math of Donna Martin being a Capricorn (her birthday is on Christmas) wasn’t adding up.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 17 May 2025
  • The math is simple—as more Americans get back to work, higher employment equals higher payroll tax receipts which Medicare and Social Security depend on.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • And of course there’s some other stuff that can do arithmetic better than us.
    Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2025
  • That’s in 45 years… Corporate labs are starting to internalize such arithmetic.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
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“Number crunching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/number%20crunching. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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