How to Use quantitative in a Sentence

quantitative

adjective
Definition of quantitativenext
  • Scientists are gathering quantitative information about human intelligence.
  • And when that happened, the Fed here in the U.S. did quantitative easing.
    — CBS News, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The index is the first-of-its-kind, quantitative measure of the financial health of women in the U.S.
    — Sallie Krawcheck, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2022
  • But his proof didn’t put any quantitative upper bound on how hard the problem could be.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Jump Crypto is part of the Jump Trading Group, a quantitative trading firm.
    — Michelle Toh, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The big question mark is how the Fed will proceed with quantitative easing.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The students will learn marketable field and quantitative skills.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Well that’s what quantitative easing was supposed to do, it was supposed to raise prices of bonds and lower yields.
    — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2020
  • By the start of last year, peak TV was a quantitative fact, not a critical assessment.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Much of the risk comes down to price, and quantitative easing has inflated bond prices to the point that many are downright dangerous.
    — Steven Grey, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2020
  • The debate around the H-1B visa has shifted from qualitative to quantitative over the years.
    — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 5 Dec. 2019
  • One league source described it as something close to a rainstorm: There is no quantitative rating for how hard to has to rain for a game to be canceled.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2021
  • There are many opinions on how to do this from a quantitative perspective, but that’s not exactly the aim here.
    — Michael Polk, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
  • The firm, which is at the forefront of a quantitative push in investing, is known for searching for patterns in torrents of data.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The Fed announced its fourth round of quantitative easing (QE) on Sunday.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 18 Mar. 2020
  • The firm is known for its deep quantitative and technical research.
    — Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2024
  • At the same time, he’s quietly built a sizable fortune with a side bet on quantitative trading.
    — Ben Stupples, Fortune, 20 July 2023
  • On top of that, the Bank of England has purchased huge amounts of government debt as part of its quantitative easing program.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Talk turned from the pursuit of quantitative fact to the slipperiness of objective truth.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2022
  • That's why getting both qualitative and quantitative research right from the get-go can go a long way.
    — Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
  • On the other hand, the principle of quantitative easing doesn’t violate EU rules, the court said.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 5 May 2020
  • And so doing that quantitative easing was more impactful, at least that’s what the studies tell us.
    — WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Odey is among a group of macro traders enjoying a stellar year as central banks start to unwind years of quantitative easing.
    — Nishant Kumar, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The rigor and exactitude of academic research in a quantitative field in a place like MIT wasn’t fun.
    — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Alameda was a quantitative trading firm founded by Sam Bankman-Fried in 2017.
    — Byluisa Beltran, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Likewise, Jim Simons, whose quantitative Medallion fund has accrued one of the best track records in the business, doesn’t share any of the code for his magic algorithms.
    — Daniel Rasmussen, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The biggest thing in the last 10 years is the continuation of quantitative easing.
    — NBC News, 27 Dec. 2019
  • The Bank of England has hoovered up 435 billion pounds of sovereign paper over the past decade as part of its quantitative easing program.
    — Marcus Ashworth | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
  • For about a year now the Fed has been practicing quantitative tightening (QT) to bring down sticky inflation rates.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The quantitative risk-takers of the River and those who take physical risks—astronauts, deep-sea explorers, NFL players—have these traits in common.
    — Nate Silver, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024

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