numerically
Americanadverb
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in a way that relates to or involves numbers.
Example Sentences
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The comparison isn’t quite as numerically simple as I’m portraying.
From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026
“While that difference may sound modest numerically, it represents a meaningful psychological shift,” says DeVoe.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
Even if not numerically significant, any infusion of manpower can count at a time when both sides are suffering attrition and scrambling to find recruits.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2024
And little wonder: they were crushed to near irrelevance numerically in Parliament for nearly a decade.
From BBC • Sep. 17, 2024
We repeated this process until we were certain that, numerically at least, all the animals with which the doctors were experimenting were accounted for.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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