number crunching

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Recent Examples of number crunching As close cycles compress and reporting accelerates, finance professionals can spend less time on reconciliation and number crunching and more time on analysis and business partnership. — Hemant Kapadia, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026 The stream — called the Kornacki Cam — provides unadulterated number crunching without any pundits weighing in. — Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026 In this case, instead of having equipment capable of all that processing power stored in massive warehouses, each satellite in orbit would do a small part of the number crunching and then beam the final results back to the ground. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026 Setting the odds for a game was more a matter of delicate intuition than wonkish number crunching. — Dan Piepenbring, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026 Opponents said Antoni — who has spent most of his career at right-wing think tanks — lacked the expertise in statistical number crunching that's typical of previous BLS commissioners. — Scott Horsley, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025 Pretraining is where most of the number crunching happens, and what follows is usually fine-tuning, which refines the model for specific tasks. — Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for number crunching
Noun
  • Since then, the consumer business has grown to around $51 billion in 2025, or 39% of total revenue, according to CNBC calculations.
    — Matthew Tan,Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
  • That calculation is reason enough to grant commissioners a boost in pay, one outgoing commissioner said.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Finally, planning and coordination are useful for tackling ambitious problems in math, programming, or any other domain.
    — Geoffrey Irving, Time, 3 Oct. 2026
  • And the math, in the case of Pike, is unstable, hinged somewhat arbitrarily on her birthday.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Yet although supplying air defenses is essential, protecting Ukraine’s skies cannot be the only strategy, because of simple arithmetic.
    — Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The arithmetic of a shrinking workforce Rowe argued the skilled-labor shortage has become difficult to dismiss as a routine hiring challenge.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The Justice Department also says Beijing is determined to sway American public opinion in its favor by cultivating relationships with political figures seen as having access to the levers of power.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Forty-five percent of adults 30 to 44 say the same; both figures have declined in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026

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“Number crunching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/number%20crunching. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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