How to Use number cruncher in a Sentence

number cruncher

noun

• The number crunchers in Washington are expecting a budget surplus by the fall.
• There’s probably some number crunchers at the BAA asking the same thing right now.
  — Shira Springer, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2018
• The life of a 20-something Wall Street number cruncher has always been a grind, marked by marathon workweeks and menial tasks.
  — David Benoit, WSJ, 3 July 2021
• The number crunchers in the game say the Angels would be smart to punt on their season and start building toward a more sustainable future.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
• The opportunity to take on the thorniest problems is what lures these number crunchers, who have their pick of jobs in a wide range of sectors.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 23 Sep. 2019
• If Barry is drawn into the case, the old number cruncher could feel more pressure to break from Donald Trump with the hope of protecting himself and his own child.
  — Michael D'antonio, CNN, 25 May 2021
• That will change Saturday, when the NBA's numbers crunchers get back to crunching numbers and signing off on the league-altering moves agreed upon these past two weeks.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 3 July 2019
• As late as September 2022, real estate agents and number crunchers were saying that the housing market was cooling off and that prices would start to even out.
  — Erin Hayes Burt, Dallas News, 30 June 2023
• Sian is an online marketer, number cruncher and business coach obsessed with helping owners crack the Growth Code for their business.
  — Sian Lenegan, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
• That was before the number crunchers figured out, with rare exceptions, there was no future in allowing a starting pitcher to go a third time through the batting order.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2018
• Kudos to numbers cruncher Rob Pyers for digging through all the local election results and compiling the data.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2020
• Accounting Accounting may not be the most exciting profession in the world, but these cagy number crunchers are needed in a number of industries this fall.
  — Michael Hoon, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2017
• According to the number crunchers, all the Raiders need to gain the final playoff spot is a four-way tie with Buffalo, Miami and Tennessee, to hop on one foot, light seven candles and say the alphabet backward.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Dec. 2017
• The director is appointed by Congress, but beyond that, staff members are career numbers crunchers.
  — Justin Wolfers, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
• Priority Health number crunchers calculated to the penny the monthly cost per policyholder if the company shifted the expense to them: 17 cents.
  — Maya Miller, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2023
• No matter how exciting topics like procurement might be to number crunchers, the report notes that some high-profile topics, including national security, public safety and public health, are not on the list.
  — Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2018
• British number cruncher Ian Stewart successfully crosses over.
  — Sarah Stanley, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2011

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024