How to Use bell curve in a Sentence

bell curve

noun
  • Why does the bell curve pop up in so many datasets?
    — Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The shape of this graph is more like a bell curve somewhat flattened out at the top.
    — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 19 June 2019
  • Instead, the right way to focus may be on the middle of the bell curve.
    — David Rock, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • Kids at the other end of this bell curve deserve all of those services and many more.
    — Constance Grady, Vox, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The law is represented by a bell curve with low arousal (or stress) on the left side and high arousal on the right side.
    — Caroline Castrillon, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The current number nuclear weapons was at the bottom of the bell curve on the slide.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Oct. 2017
  • In real life, the distribution of how much people drive looks more or less like a bell curve.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The first was a gentle bell curve; the second was a jagged line, with two sharp peaks—one on the left, the other on the right.
    — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • This bell curve, called a wave packet, is centered at position A.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2020
  • On any kind of change issue, the majority of leaders land in the middle of a bell curve.
    — David Rock, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • Most people — around 50 percent — fall right in the middle of the chronotype bell curve.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Investor returns tend to follow a bell curve—most people earn around the average.
    — Michael Sonnenfeldt, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The number also appears in bell curves, which are found in statistics about random variables that add up.
    — Kat Friedrich, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Think back to the bell curve in math class - most of the data is clumped around the middle, with more extreme events on the edges as frequency trails off.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Infections should peak and then wane at relatively equal rates, producing a bell curve.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 13 Sep. 2021
  • This curve is similar to the Gaussian bell curve, or the downward parabola.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Oct. 2016
  • This despite the fact that the profession of science is skewed toward the right end of the intelligence bell curve.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 May 2011
  • My appreciation of great players — and the finite nature of their careers — has come to me in a bell curve.
    — Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 2 Aug. 2024
  • My hypothesis and recommendation to founders is to be on the outskirts of this bell curve.
    — Vibhu Singh, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • There’s a giant missing piece in the middle of the bell curve, where all the studies with non-significant results should be.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 22 July 2022
  • In the middle part of the bell curve, The Ending seemed to loom ominously over everything.
    — Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Will the dominance of the subscription model end up protecting niche tastes or result in a great rush to the middle of the bell curve?
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 17 July 2019
  • Over the past two years, spending for the four cryptocurrency advertisers has followed a classic bell curve.
    — Brad Adgate, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • As in the real universe, density differences between regions form a bell curve around zero.
    — Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 16 June 2019
  • With the usual bell curve in full effect, herewith are our midterm grades for Wimbledon 2018.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 7 July 2018
  • Apparently, because our species’ success gains from individuals on both sides of the bell curve.
    — Popular Science, 28 Apr. 2020
  • To understand how the climate crisis is changing the playing field, Mann suggests thinking of weather events on a bell curve.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 28 June 2021
  • Other data sets of people’s driving distances show a bell curve, with some people driving a lot, a few very little, and most somewhere in the middle.
    — Cathleen O’Grady, Science | AAAS, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Craven Faults albums tend to move on a bell curve, steadily gathering and releasing themselves like a storm system’s cycle.
    — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The result was a bell curve in which most people either were balanced evenly between empathy and systemizing or leaned one way or the other.
    — Simon Baron-Cohen, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2020

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