Thesaurus results for QUANTIFY

quantify

verb

Definition of quantify

as in to measure

formal 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 Wearable companies are racing to quantify something that used to be a feeling. — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 7 July 2026 The statement quantified the Moroccan government’s investment in the Ouarzazate cinema city at 240 million Moroccan Dirhams, which is more than $25 million. — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 3 July 2026 Now, a report from the International Council on Clean Transportation has tried to quantify that effect, comparing various electrification scenarios over the next couple of decades. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 30 June 2026 Our analysis did not seek to quantify exactly what happened to all the water that COID diverted but that was not consumed by crops. — Emily Cureton Cook, ProPublica, 26 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for quantify

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Calcium score testing measures the amount of calcific plaque in the arteries around the heart, also called the coronary arteries.

— Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 10 July 2026
Thirty-eight participants completed the study while researchers measured EEG brain activity, heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV) and perceived stress.

— Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026

Definition of measure

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This dramatically lowers the cost of deployment and increases operational flexibility, and shift the bottleneck of physical systems such as robotics from hardware engineering to compute scaling.

— Anjana Susarla, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
The move comes as Meta simultaneously plans a new cloud computing business to sell excess capacity, even as investors remain skeptical of its roughly $145 billion capex forecast and the company's lag behind AI leaders OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 9 July 2026

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Vogue Business assessed the 64 shows and presentations published on Vogue Runway and contacted each brand to verify the findings (brands were given 48 hours to respond).

— Amy Francombe, Vogue, 6 July 2026
Professionals must actively map where their risk truly lies, assessing counterparty exposure, income correlation, and cost repricing, rather than mistaking simplicity for safety.

— Henrik Totterman, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026

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