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Recent Examples of numeric
Labeling his furniture designs with dry numeric codes wasn’t for Jean Royère.
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Sarah Medford, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
The airport’s alpha-numeric category designates the maximum landing speed and wingspan of aircraft for which the facility is designed.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2021
Reporting on inflation isn’t all that useful when the percentages tossed about like numeric salad with a light panic vinaigrette are unaccompanied by more context and comparison.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes, 23 June 2021
The state’s overall community college and university headcount dropped by about 123,000 students — the largest numeric decrease of any state.
—Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
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Sarah Medford, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
The airport’s alpha-numeric category designates the maximum landing speed and wingspan of aircraft for which the facility is designed.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2021
Reporting on inflation isn’t all that useful when the percentages tossed about like numeric salad with a light panic vinaigrette are unaccompanied by more context and comparison.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes, 23 June 2021
The state’s overall community college and university headcount dropped by about 123,000 students — the largest numeric decrease of any state.
—Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for numeric
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That's up 16% from 512,000 savers who broke into seven digits on their 401(k) statements in the first quarter's turbulent market.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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Since most states only collect the last four digits of Social Security numbers from voters, the latest upgrade swung open the door for many more states to use SAVE.—
Miles Parks,
NPR,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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At one point, a running number tied to Boys and Girls Clubs of America flashed on the screen, starting at $100,000.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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These medications can lower the number of neutrophils, a type of white blood cell that helps fight bacterial infections.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Health,
14 Sep. 2025
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Algorithms are old—around 300 B.C., Euclid invented one for finding the greatest common divisor of two integers.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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The curriculum tackles a small number of seminal topics in each school year—like ratio and proportion or the concept of integers—and teaches these deeply from multiple angles.—
Linda Darling-Hammond,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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“Numeric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numeric. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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