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
  • Unlike fragile physical qubits, which suffer rapid calculation decay from environmental noise, logical qubits group multiple physical qubits together using software protocols to ensure computational stability and accuracy.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026
  • And while the PitchBook offers a broadly bullish outlook for Kalshi, that calculation is based on a reading of the legal tea leaves that some may view as optimistic.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • What feels worth the money When buying a home feels impossibly far, the math behind a small treat can start to look different.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Learn mathematics with just a pencil and paper to figure out math formulas with no aid of calculators.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 18 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Consider the arithmetic that never appears in a business case.
    — Pankaj Prasoon, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • But Lynch, 62, said the decision was driven less by nostalgia than by arithmetic.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 17 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • His decision to campaign alongside internet personality Hasan Piker has alienated more centrist Democratic figures who hoped the party would moderate after losing to Trump in the 2024 presidential election.
    — Carter Schroppe, The Washington Examiner, 21 Sep. 2026
  • So, here, WWD celebrates the designers, executives and other figures who today are helping to drive Italian — and the world’s — culture.
    — Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026

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“Number crunching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/number%20crunching. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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