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Recent Examples of numeric
Labeling his furniture designs with dry numeric codes wasn’t for Jean Royère.
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Sarah Medford, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
The airport’s alpha-numeric category designates the maximum landing speed and wingspan of aircraft for which the facility is designed.
—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
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Sarah Medford, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
The airport’s alpha-numeric category designates the maximum landing speed and wingspan of aircraft for which the facility is designed.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for numeric
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In the document made public Wednesday, Silverman alleged Burke cut off those digits to remove evidence of a tattoo Hernandez had gotten of the singer’s name.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
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Entering this season, four of Morejón’s 2,061 career fastballs had reached triple digits.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
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All of the numbers from that game are jaw-dropping.—
Dan Santaromita,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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Nexstar contends the deal would strengthen TV station economics, allowing stations to bolster their news gathering and expand the number of newscasts.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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Not just because infinity is so useful and so natural to our descriptions of the universe, but because treating sets of numbers (like the integers) as actual, infinite objects is at the very core of mathematics, embedded in its most fundamental rules and assumptions.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
29 Apr. 2026
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The final number, q, is obtained by dividing k by 4 and keeping only the integer part; that is, q = 5 for 2026.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Numeric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numeric. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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