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
While these costly price tags help quantify the real-life effects of climate change, Sharma cautioned against focusing only on the numbers.
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Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
To better quantify big poultry’s footprint, reporters created and analyzed what may be the most accurate count of poultry farms made public in North Carolina.
—Gavin Off, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2025
On Thursday, Costco shareholders voted overwhelmingly against a proposal from a conservative think thank that would have compelled the retailer to quantify the risks of maintaining its DEI initiatives.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 25 Jan. 2025
Djokovic has been complimentary about Murray’s impact, which although hard to quantify exactly coincided with the Serb beating Carlos Alcaraz in Tuesday’s quarterfinal, having lost to him in their two most recent Grand Slam meetings.
—Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
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Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 20 Jan. 2025
To better quantify big poultry’s footprint, reporters created and analyzed what may be the most accurate count of poultry farms made public in North Carolina.
—Gavin Off, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2025
On Thursday, Costco shareholders voted overwhelmingly against a proposal from a conservative think thank that would have compelled the retailer to quantify the risks of maintaining its DEI initiatives.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 25 Jan. 2025
Djokovic has been complimentary about Murray’s impact, which although hard to quantify exactly coincided with the Serb beating Carlos Alcaraz in Tuesday’s quarterfinal, having lost to him in their two most recent Grand Slam meetings.
—Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
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The Xfinity Series raced at this venue from 2005 to 2008, though on a different eight-turn course that measured 2.518 miles.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
8 Feb. 2025
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Ship capacity transiting through the Panama Canal was 10 percent lower between September 2024 and January 2025 than the 2019-22 average, measured in deadweight tonnage, according to the Baltic and International Maritime Council (BIMCO).—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
8 Feb. 2025
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Last month, the president also announced a new $100 billion A.I. initiative between OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank to create computing infrastructure in the United States to power artificial intelligence.—
Kate Conger,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2025
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The cloud computing subsidiary of Alibaba Group also found its Qwen2.5-Max showed comparable performance to OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet — both closed-source models.—
Britney Nguyen,
Quartz,
29 Jan. 2025
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The effort to assess the fire department’s needs was the subject of a lengthy debate on the council floor this week.—
David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Feb. 2025
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In addition, there is a European Space Agency payload, the Package for Resource Observation and in-situ Prospecting for Exploration, commercial exploration and Transportation (PROSPECT), designed to assess the potential use of resources for human exploration.—
Richard Tribou,
Orlando Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2025
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The Swedish royal family announced the news of the birth on February 7, 2025, saying the baby girl weighed 8 pounds and was 19 inches long.—
Anna Halkidis,
Parents,
10 Feb. 2025
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The man weighed about 157 pounds and was 5 feet 7 inches tall.—
Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Quantify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quantify. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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