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
Elizabeth Phillips, a former Department of Juvenile Justice ombudsman who is also a Hope navigator assisting Floridians, said during the roundtable that not everything Hope Florida does can be quantified in a weekly report.
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Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025
In the early 2010s, fitness apps started quantifying health metrics, serving as calorie and nutrition counters.
—Igor Epshteyn, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
In this country, we are obsessed with content and curriculum, all the while devaluing presence and proximity, which are two teaching values hard to describe or quantify (or, indeed, teach).
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
Now, machine learning can quantify that assessment with surprising accuracy.
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 12 May 2025
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Lawrence Mower, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025
In the early 2010s, fitness apps started quantifying health metrics, serving as calorie and nutrition counters.
—Igor Epshteyn, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
In this country, we are obsessed with content and curriculum, all the while devaluing presence and proximity, which are two teaching values hard to describe or quantify (or, indeed, teach).
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
Now, machine learning can quantify that assessment with surprising accuracy.
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quantify
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The most telling way to measure Timber’s impact is that, even when White returned from injury in February, Arteta stuck with the Dutchman until he was lost to the ankle problem that kept him out for the final month of the season.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
28 May 2025
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Boyer and his colleagues measured the concentrations of ammonia and other gases in the air roughly five miles away from a colony of 60,000 Adélie penguins in Antarctica.—
Sara Hashemi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 May 2025
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Coaches have stressed the need to manage in-game situations better by relying less on speed and instincts and instead learning to compute what’s happening around him when making decisions with the puck.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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Meanwhile, another side was full of PC monitors and prebuilt desktops and laptops, giving consumers a wide range of computing options.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
30 May 2025
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Virginia Canter, a former government ethics lawyer, said executive branch employees who don’t have nonpublic information and want to trade stock should consult with ethics officials before doing so, thereby allowing an independent third party to assess their actions.—
Robert Faturechi,
ProPublica,
22 May 2025
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In the study, sponsored by Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, researchers developed a new scorecard to assess the urgency of local caregiving needs.—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
22 May 2025
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Many expect Durant to be moved after another year of underperforming with the Suns, while Antetokounmpo is weighing his future in Milwaukee.—
Matt Levine,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
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Attorney and longtime political donor John Morgan, founder of the mega personal injury firm Morgan & Morgan, created his own independent party this year and is also weighing a run for governor in the Sunshine State, despite supporting Democratic candidates and causes in the past.—
Ramsey Touchberry,
The Washington Examiner,
29 May 2025
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“Quantify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quantify. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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