number crunching

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Recent Examples of number crunching 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 This will give decision makers essentially no choice but to deploy, and will give the fruits of your number crunching a chance to realize a business impact. Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 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
  • The final version, which retained the calculations published in the draft report, was completed shortly before the EPA announced its intention in May to rescind and reconsider limits on the amount of PFNA and several other forever chemicals allowed in drinking water.
    Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The country’s leaders, ostensibly engineers, got their calculations disastrously wrong and built too much of everything, including high-speed rail.
    Andy Browne, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The researchers then applied techniques from a branch of math called network science to rank cardinals on three measures of influence within the network.
    Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Nearly 54% of San Diego County students met or exceeded the standard for English language arts in the 2024-25 test results, and nearly 42% met or exceeded the standard for math.
    Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Simple arithmetic such as 355/113 could be calculated in place by selecting the text and pressing USE FRONT-CALC (Control-G), which yields the answer with a dotted underline to indicate the result of a computation.
    Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The arithmetic of the French National Assembly – the key hurdle to getting any budget passed – hasn’t changed with a new prime minister.
    Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Many of them had easy access to government offices that enabled them to obtain genuine Syrian passports with fake names, according to former employees and regime figures.
    Danny Makki, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Evans said he wasn’t thwarted by the brand’s adoption among Robinson and other political figures because of their lowbrow tastes.
    Steve Salter, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Number crunching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/number%20crunching. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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