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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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The way the service will work is that once a connection is made, the person with the T-Mobile account enters a few digits on their phone (*87* to be exact) and that will enable the real-time translation service on the network.—
Bob O'Donnell,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
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But the real story behind those three digits is not the number itself.—
Catherine Rea,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 Feb. 2026
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Callella, 42, is accused of using a voice over internet protocol text and call application to surreptitiously reach out to the family, but authorities were able to link the phone number to his email address and, later, his residence, according to the complaint.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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In 2024, however, the state wildlife commission doubled the number of available tags.—
Kris Millgate,
Outdoor Life,
6 Feb. 2026
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Next, arrange the nodes in a circle and label each one with an integer.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
28 Jan. 2026
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In 1980 Klaus von Klitzing at the Planck Institute for Solid State Research, in Stuttgart, Germany, discovered the integer quantum Hall effect.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
13 Dec. 2025
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“Numeric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numeric. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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