number crunching

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Recent Examples of number crunching 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
  • Warner said that, by Accenture’s calculations, the pace shows no sign of slowing until something approaching 2030.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The group's calculations exclude automobile dealers, gasoline stations and restaurants.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The use of generative AI to find new potential math research results isn’t going away.
    — Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The sheer math of persuading a majority of the House of Representatives, the Senate and the president to approve a bill is difficult enough.
    — Scott Warren, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Solving a memory problem One particularly notable result concerns modular inversion, a mathematical operation used in elliptic-curve arithmetic.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Swagel cautioned against doing arithmetic on the fly but offered some back-of-the-envelope numbers.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Dante populated his realms of Hell and Purgatory with figures, monsters and moral frameworks borrowed directly from classical Greek and Roman myths.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Of late, Holloway’s inspirations have included figures from history, music stars, actors and socialites such as the Duke of Windsor, Bryan Ferry and Charlie Watts.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026

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“Number crunching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/number%20crunching. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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