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 relatable survey findings quantify the many ways that parents put their kids first.
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Melissa Willets, Parents, 10 Oct. 2025
Whether the Jedi mind trick played a role Sunday is hard to quantify, but the message was obvious.
—Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
For example, if the information in the past frames isn’t enough to accurately predict the future frames, the prediction is uncertain, and V-JEPA doesn’t quantify this uncertainty.
—Quanta Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
While traditional methods are based on physical equations, AI models learn patterns from large datasets, which can help quantify uncertainty, assist in identifying extreme events, and allow models to improve over time.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
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Melissa Willets, Parents, 10 Oct. 2025
Whether the Jedi mind trick played a role Sunday is hard to quantify, but the message was obvious.
—Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
For example, if the information in the past frames isn’t enough to accurately predict the future frames, the prediction is uncertain, and V-JEPA doesn’t quantify this uncertainty.
—Quanta Magazine, 3 Oct. 2025
While traditional methods are based on physical equations, AI models learn patterns from large datasets, which can help quantify uncertainty, assist in identifying extreme events, and allow models to improve over time.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
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Bean and squash yields (as measured by weight) were reduced when intercropped with maize, while maize yields were only slightly diminished when intercropped.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
14 Oct. 2025
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The impact of individual protests and boycotts is difficult to measure, but Israeli producers and filmmakers agree that calls to isolate the Israeli industry have been broadly successful.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Oct. 2025
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Kate Prouty, the chief information officer at Akamai Technologies, says workers at the cybersecurity and cloud computing company have developed a voracious appetite for artificial intelligence.—
John Kell,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
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So, this means that there is another major buyer out there looking to stand up significant data center computing power.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
13 Oct. 2025
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Rotating personnel has certainly not helped, but the international break will have allowed Slot to assess where his side can improve defensively.—
Mark Carey,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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As business leaders and economists begin to take concerns of an AI bubble more seriously, the proliferation of loose internet bots has become more alarming because of their potential to distort data key to assessing the sustainability and growth of emerging tech companies.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
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The Los Angeles County district attorney at the time, George Gascón, was reexamining their case and weighing whether to ask the court to reconsider their life sentence.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025
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Among the artifacts retrieved was a fragment of an arcade arch that weighs more than 440 pounds.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Quantify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quantify. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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