as in to measure
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to find the quantity or amount of (something)
It is difficult to quantify intelligence. Doctors have quantified the risks of smoking cigarettes. It is impossible to quantify the number of websites on the Internet.
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Recent Examples of quantify
That’s hard to quantify, but that’s of value.
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Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026
Only 2 percent of investments have gone to circular businesses, according to estimates in the Circularity Gap Report Finance in 2025, the world’s first empirical study that quantified the financial streams to circular business models.
—Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 2 June 2026
The purpose of naming these users is not to claim that each bears the same cost; the costs differ in kind and magnitude, and some are far easier to quantify than others.
—Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
But a recent report from the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget quantifies the deep damage even a continuation at the recent peaks would inflict.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 May 2026
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Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026
Only 2 percent of investments have gone to circular businesses, according to estimates in the Circularity Gap Report Finance in 2025, the world’s first empirical study that quantified the financial streams to circular business models.
—Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 2 June 2026
The purpose of naming these users is not to claim that each bears the same cost; the costs differ in kind and magnitude, and some are far easier to quantify than others.
—Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
But a recent report from the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget quantifies the deep damage even a continuation at the recent peaks would inflict.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quantify
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Minimizing thermal energy removes ambient atomic vibrations, allowing the team to measure pure quantum mechanics without heat interference.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
7 June 2026
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Their concerns center on FIFA’s use of the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT), which measures the combined effects of air temperature, humidity, wind and sunlight on the body.—
Emile Nuh,
CNN Money,
7 June 2026
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The engineer was the cofounder of Wang Laboratories, which helped propel computing into the office with its line of word processors.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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This approach to text generation shifts the bottleneck from memory bandwidth to compute, generating up to 256 tokens in parallel.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
10 June 2026
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While Estrella found a permanent home, Valle cautioned residents to assess each situation carefully.—
Jasmine Arenas,
CBS News,
12 June 2026
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The source also said Bessent has directed his team to assess conditions in the Gulf and request comprehensive estimates of costs associated with such repairs.—
Sarah Dean,
NBC news,
12 June 2026
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Each weighs about a third of a pound.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
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Police described Taylor as a Black male standing approximately 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing about 130 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.—
Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
11 June 2026
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“Quantify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quantify. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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