How to Use absolute value in a Sentence

absolute value

noun
  • To watch the greats (in absolute value) duke it out, yet again?
    — Ginny Hogan, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024
  • There is no absolute value to anything the first B-girl is doing.
    — Dvora Meyers, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2024
  • That absolute value became their dependent variable, the thing that changed over time.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Democracy, for Mises, was not an absolute value to be respected at all times.
    — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The absolute value of a triple Salchow doesn't change from skater to skater, and there are clear guidelines about how to score the execution of that jump.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Mental accounting is a term that describes how people think in terms of relative value rather than absolute value.
    — Brian Boswell, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • The absolute value of emotion in this game will be much higher than the one that played out at Arrowhead Stadium.
    — cleveland.com, 22 Oct. 2017
  • The higher the absolute value of the beta coefficient, the stronger the effect of diet quality on the outcome.
    — New Atlas, 15 Dec. 2024
  • If safety were an absolute value in transportation policy, the national highway speed limit would be fifteen miles an hour.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 2 July 2018
  • What Burns and Novick prove yet again is the catharsis that can be found in telling our stories to one another – and the absolute value in getting these stories right.
    — Author: Hank Stuever, Alaska Dispatch News, 18 Sep. 2017
  • This correlates with a higher absolute value of the second number in the pair (–15 versus –11).
    — Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2015
  • Thus, claiming free speech as an absolute value, and their leftism as a badge of pride, Charlie Hebdo can mock the victims of a natural disaster.
    — Panjak Mishra, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 Sep. 2017
  • All four models show that Russia has lagged behind China and India in absolute values of national power.
    — Simon Saradzhyan, Washington Post, 20 June 2018
  • China also beat the United States in absolute value of national power in 2016.
    — Simon Saradzhyan, Washington Post, 20 June 2018
  • One way to evaluate an asset’s absolute value-creation potential is by focusing on profitability per joule unit of energy (USD/J) instead of cost per barrel.
    — Muqsit Ashraf, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021

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