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
The cost that is hardest to quantify but has perhaps the longest tail is the damage that Trump has done to international law.
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Andreas Kluth, Boston Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
Lillis said that the ESCAPADE team attempted to quantify the additional risk using reasonable assumptions, and shared their findings with NASA earlier this year.
—Leonard David, Space.com, 4 Jan. 2026
Influence is difficult to quantify without concrete examples of victories.
—Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 3 Jan. 2026
While saying that exact totals are difficult to quantify, about 10% of the city’s water infrastructure is from 1920 or earlier, Malay said.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2026
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Andreas Kluth, Boston Herald, 7 Jan. 2026
Lillis said that the ESCAPADE team attempted to quantify the additional risk using reasonable assumptions, and shared their findings with NASA earlier this year.
—Leonard David, Space.com, 4 Jan. 2026
Influence is difficult to quantify without concrete examples of victories.
—Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 3 Jan. 2026
While saying that exact totals are difficult to quantify, about 10% of the city’s water infrastructure is from 1920 or earlier, Malay said.
—Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quantify
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The property’s lot measures 4,640 square feet in area.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
8 Jan. 2026
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For now, expectations remain measured.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Jan. 2026
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Caterpillar said its autonomous systems rely on AI, machine learning, computer vision, and edge computing to process sensor data in real time.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Jan. 2026
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People keep either misunderstanding or forgetting that there are not one but two revolutions going on here, the second being accelerated computing.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
4 Jan. 2026
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In 2015, the FBI opened an investigation into the group to assess potential criminal activity.—
Asra Q. Nomani , Nikolas Lanum , Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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Officers were seen entering multiple mobile homes to assess the situation.—
Nina Burns,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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The girders, or beams, weigh approximately 42,000 pounds and are around 117 feet long, the release said.—
Darin Oswald,
Idaho Statesman,
12 Jan. 2026
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Presidential searches House Republicans are weighing the revival of a 2025 bill aimed at counteracting DeSantis’ increasingly outsize influence on university presidential searches.—
Garrett Shanley,
Miami Herald,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Quantify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quantify. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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