How to Use analytic in a Sentence

analytic

adjective
  • For Cohen and Moshkovitz’s result to hold, the field size has to be much larger than the analytic rank.
    Quanta Magazine, 9 Nov. 2021
  • And that's an important thing to get right in terms of your analytic call.
    CBS News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • But to concede that view is to lay down our analytic weapons, and provide an easy route for the horror to prevail again.
    Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, The New Republic, 23 Oct. 2020
  • All of our case study jump-off beats were produced using the Emu SP-1200, and with an analytic ear, its distinct traits can be both heard and felt.
    Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 5 June 2023
  • The group discusses the analytic theory behind the deal, what became of the draft picks and how the deal lives on today.
    Scott Patsko, cleveland, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The analytic spreadsheets went up in smoke when Rosario hit a 105-mph shot that clipped off the glove of shortstop Corey Seager into center field.
    Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2021
  • To date, PGA Tour pros have been far better able than amateurs to take advantage of the new wave of analytic golf data.
    John Paul Newport, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021
  • And this was just in the aftermath of our failure, our analytic failure on Iraq weapons of mass destruction.
    CBS News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • But there may have been something else at work, besides his keen, analytic nature.
    Adrian Walker, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
  • Various analytic sites ranked Mayfield among the top five QBs in the second half of the 2020 regular season.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 2 Jan. 2022
  • On the whiteboard in their locker room was posted this analytic — a 0.3% chance of making the playoffs after that disastrous start to the season.
    Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • What that left, said a former employee with knowledge of the company’s analytic data, was a real, if tiny, fan base — just not the one Ozy liked to talk about.
    Ben Smith, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Chris was a little more analytic about his son’s performance in 2021.
    Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Like Doris Lessing, her writing is fueled by a constant, analytic sense of quest.
    Kirsten Denker, The New Republic, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The simplest explanation turned out to be the correct one: After more than a half-decade out of math, Gilmer just didn’t know how to do some of the technical analytic work required to pull it off.
    Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023
  • By the analytic site Inpredictable, the Dolphins sit 26th.
    Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • But the Indy 500 is an animal suited for Hunter-Reay and his analytic approach.
    Jenna Fryer, Star Tribune, 26 May 2021
  • But history hasn’t been kind to him, as many of the newer analytic numbers have downgraded him on offense.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Detectives used cellphone records and analytic software on Sept. 2 to assist in a search for the missing woman.
    Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2021
  • But many who have suffered from Havana Syndrome say the analytic work and investigation of the episodes have fallen short and have raised questions about it.
    Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The marketing analytic type roles, those are difficult jobs to fill.
    James Brown, USA TODAY, 10 July 2022
  • No amount of analytic spreadsheets and Ivy League front office employees can change that equation.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Baker racks up tackles and impact plays, but does not always put up big analytic numbers.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 2 June 2021
  • And my first question, Derek, is really an analytic one, not a policy one.
    CBS News, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The Paterson, New Jersey, police department has made such an analytic tool a major part of its plan to overhaul its force.
    Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 2 Feb. 2024
  • In a 2011 analytic study, Peterson and Kyle Wendler examined ways to use the technology in ice cellars, and the results seemed promising.
    Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Oct. 2022
  • For instance, participants might be asked to read a passage in a hard-to-read font, which requires more work to take in information and prompts an analytic mindset.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Amid the analytic movement that emphasized the three true outcomes — home runs, strikeouts and walks, and plenty of each — speed got lost in the shuffle, unfortunately.
    John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Even the most analytic of reads can’t keep me from desperately needing next week’s finale and learning what exactly did (or did not) just happen.
    Kevin Sullivan, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Despite the early fears of some Giants fans, the team has not become a nonpersonal analytic equation.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Oct. 2021

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