How to Use quantitative in a Sentence

quantitative

adjective
Definition of quantitativenext
  • Scientists are gathering quantitative information about human intelligence.
  • And when that happened, the Fed here in the U.S. did quantitative easing.
    — CBS News, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The index is the first-of-its-kind, quantitative measure of the financial health of women in the U.S.
    — Sallie Krawcheck, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2022
  • But his proof didn’t put any quantitative upper bound on how hard the problem could be.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Jump Crypto is part of the Jump Trading Group, a quantitative trading firm.
    — Michelle Toh, CNN, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The big question mark is how the Fed will proceed with quantitative easing.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The students will learn marketable field and quantitative skills.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2022
  • By the start of last year, peak TV was a quantitative fact, not a critical assessment.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 10 Nov. 2021
  • One league source described it as something close to a rainstorm: There is no quantitative rating for how hard to has to rain for a game to be canceled.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2021
  • There are many opinions on how to do this from a quantitative perspective, but that’s not exactly the aim here.
    — Michael Polk, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2021
  • The firm, which is at the forefront of a quantitative push in investing, is known for searching for patterns in torrents of data.
    — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The firm is known for its deep quantitative and technical research.
    — Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 19 Oct. 2024
  • At the same time, he’s quietly built a sizable fortune with a side bet on quantitative trading.
    — Ben Stupples, Fortune, 20 July 2023
  • On top of that, the Bank of England has purchased huge amounts of government debt as part of its quantitative easing program.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Talk turned from the pursuit of quantitative fact to the slipperiness of objective truth.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2022
  • And so doing that quantitative easing was more impactful, at least that’s what the studies tell us.
    — WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Odey is among a group of macro traders enjoying a stellar year as central banks start to unwind years of quantitative easing.
    — Nishant Kumar, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The rigor and exactitude of academic research in a quantitative field in a place like MIT wasn’t fun.
    — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Alameda was a quantitative trading firm founded by Sam Bankman-Fried in 2017.
    — Byluisa Beltran, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Likewise, Jim Simons, whose quantitative Medallion fund has accrued one of the best track records in the business, doesn’t share any of the code for his magic algorithms.
    — Daniel Rasmussen, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
  • For about a year now the Fed has been practicing quantitative tightening (QT) to bring down sticky inflation rates.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The book presents a mix of qualitative and quantitative data, from statistics to interviews out in the field.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • So Bernanke began pressing for a newer, bigger round of quantitative easing in the summer of 2012.
    — Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Rather than use a quantitative tool to comprehend the dead, visitors experience the scale of death in terms of their own time and energies.
    — Wired, 22 July 2022
  • The result of this quantitative study: 1,000 companies forging the path into the future.
    — Time Staff, TIME, 12 Sep. 2024
  • With quantitative tightening in full force, the large bond supply to be absorbed is adding to a rapid rebuilding of term premium, the strategists say.
    — WSJ, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The central bank hadn’t employed bond-purchase programs in modern times, known in the market as quantitative easing, or QE.
    — Jon Hilsenrath, WSJ, 22 June 2021
  • Facebook did not respond to our questions about these groups or any other of our quantitative findings.
    — ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Using decades worth of quantitative research on the changes that the beaks of Darwin’s finches undergo due to various environmental changes, the team modeled how beaks would likely change into the future.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The model powering this forecast combines our polling averages for each Senate race with other quantitative and qualitative data to figure out which candidates are likely to win in each state.
    — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2024

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