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Recent Examples of numeric
The airport’s alpha-numeric category designates the maximum landing speed and wingspan of aircraft for which the facility is designed.
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Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2021
Reporting on inflation isn’t all that useful when the percentages tossed about like numeric salad with a light panic vinaigrette are unaccompanied by more context and comparison.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes, 23 June 2021
The state’s overall community college and university headcount dropped by about 123,000 students — the largest numeric decrease of any state.
—Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
From the insight derivation or analytics perspective, the structure provides the right data type (i.e., nominal, ordinal or numeric).
—Prashanth Southekal, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
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Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2021
Reporting on inflation isn’t all that useful when the percentages tossed about like numeric salad with a light panic vinaigrette are unaccompanied by more context and comparison.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes, 23 June 2021
The state’s overall community college and university headcount dropped by about 123,000 students — the largest numeric decrease of any state.
—Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
From the insight derivation or analytics perspective, the structure provides the right data type (i.e., nominal, ordinal or numeric).
—Prashanth Southekal, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for numeric
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The Giants led 8-2 heading into the sixth inning with Webb on the mound, which is typically the kind of win probability that comes in three digits instead of two.—
Grant Brisbee,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
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Wednesday is expected to start off sunny and hot, with a high of 91 and heat index into triple digits at BWI Marshall Airport.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
9 July 2025
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The lower the number, the brighter a planet or star will appear in the night sky.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
15 July 2025
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Collecting 16 games of action last year, the numbers were back up in a big way.—
Justin Grasso,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
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The curriculum tackles a small number of seminal topics in each school year—like ratio and proportion or the concept of integers—and teaches these deeply from multiple angles.—
Linda Darling-Hammond,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Given that there are infinitely many positive integers of all different sizes, however, this number is minuscule compared with even larger primes.—
Rachel Crowell,
Scientific American,
16 June 2025
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“Numeric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numeric. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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