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
Unlike a specific cholesterol level or the size of a tumor, pain is much more difficult to quantify and convey.
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Hard to quantify the buzz here in Chapel Hill.
—Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
As the study notes, one way to address the dilemma of human-AI interaction is for AI systems to learn to quantify uncertainty and communicate proactively, asking for clarification or more information when faced with vague instructions or unclear scenarios.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Aug. 2025
However, the precise amount of money Sanders was due to earn from NIL deals became a subject of dispute, eventually leading a bankruptcy judge to grant a trustee’s request for a special counsel to be appointed in an attempt to quantify them.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Hard to quantify the buzz here in Chapel Hill.
—Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
As the study notes, one way to address the dilemma of human-AI interaction is for AI systems to learn to quantify uncertainty and communicate proactively, asking for clarification or more information when faced with vague instructions or unclear scenarios.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Aug. 2025
However, the precise amount of money Sanders was due to earn from NIL deals became a subject of dispute, eventually leading a bankruptcy judge to grant a trustee’s request for a special counsel to be appointed in an attempt to quantify them.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quantify
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After the mysterious deaths of the two diamondback rattlesnakes, Cardwell dug up temperature data from a 20-year-old study in the Mojave Desert to help develop a mathematical model for measuring what might be happening inside the desert burrows.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Trades finalize in three to five seconds, enabling near-instant payment finality, and transaction fees are measured in fractions of a cent.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Previous designs have been used in specialized applications, such as connecting computing units inside data centers where speed is critical.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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Those numbers were more than sufficient to land Flock on Forbes’ 2025 Cloud 100 list of the top private cloud computing companies.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Moyes takes his time assessing and signing off on targets and is notoriously picky.—
Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
4 Sep. 2025
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Angel Reese was assessed her 8th technical foul of the season after incidental contact with Aaliyah Edwards on this play.—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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Getty Images Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell stands 6-foot-5 and weighs 265 pounds.—
Rob Reischel,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Rather than conjuring a mood of bracing inexorability, this linear focus only suffocates what might be an interesting debate, as a man of the modern world weighs his values against those of a woman raised in atavistic isolation.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Quantify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quantify. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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