as in calculation
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
he did a little number crunching and made an offer on the house
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Recent Examples of number crunching
The stream — called the Kornacki Cam — provides unadulterated number crunching without any pundits weighing in.
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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
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
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
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
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Lively’s lawyers must still submit billing records and fee calculations for court approval.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
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The calculations revealed the quark generalized parton distribution (GPD) of the pion.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
12 June 2026
Noun
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Before his presidency, solving Social Security’s financial troubles — and indeed, those of the broader federal budget — seemed like a simple political math equation.—
Ben Ritz,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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Per data from the 2024-25 school year, only slightly more than 30% of high school juniors across the state were meeting or exceeding the standard for math.—
Tarini Mehta,
Sacbee.com,
11 June 2026
Noun
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The bears are running careful arithmetic on the company in the rearview mirror.—
Jon Markman,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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The short thesis, stated plainly The arithmetic of the buildout is unforgiving.—
Bhaskar Chakravorti,
Fortune,
7 June 2026
Noun
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Inspired by figures like Jack Greenberg, the longtime head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Dan chose public service, centering his path on helping the underserved while challenging entrenched systems of inequality.—
Joel Rubin,
New York Daily News,
9 June 2026
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An alliance of prominent French business, publishing and film figures has joined forces to revive one of the most storied venues in Paris cinephilia, with luxury house Chanel serving as lead partner behind the reopening of the historic Saint-Germain-des-Prés cinema.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
9 June 2026
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