How to Use crowdsourcing in a Sentence

crowdsourcing

noun
  • With any crowdsourcing platform, take the reviews with a grain of salt — and watch out for fake reviews.
    — Rick Steves' Europe, The Seattle Times, 25 Sep. 2018
  • This method of crowdsourcing and gamification has paid off in the past.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2020
  • In the more shadowy corners of the crowdsourcing industry, the use of child workers is overt.
    — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Along the way, he's pioneered new technologies in crowdsourcing and big data that have been used around the globe.
    — Bruna Bortolato, National Geographic, 28 Feb. 2018
  • Second, don’t go into denial if your initial crowdsourcing projects fail.
    — Tim Harsch, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • So in a salute to online crowdsourcing, Grosso decided not to repaint it white.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Even though such crowdsourcing may take years to see fruition, those campaigns actually have an impact.
    — Popular Science, 11 Aug. 2020
  • The key for a successful crowdsourcing project is finding people who care about the topic and are willing to talk.
    — Asia Fields, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2024
  • There isn’t a flicker of musical edge on this album, only a belief in the crowdsourcing of ideas.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 31 May 2017
  • But note that Michael spends a lot of his time in the talk pointing out the obvious -- crowdsourcing doesn't always work.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2011
  • Not all of the best bargains are widely advertised so one way to learn the deepest discounts is through crowdsourcing.
    — Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The group is trying to raise more than $4 million from public crowdsourcing and private fundraising.
    — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The crowdsourcing project is part of a larger effort to gather more information on how giraffes live in the wild.
    — Karla Peterson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 July 2017
  • Joynt decided the best way to pay for the marker this time would be through crowdsourcing, with a goal of $2,100.
    — Michelle Matthews, AL.com, 2 June 2017
  • The first thing to know is that Tomnod was a crowdsourcing tool people used to help figure out what happened to the flight and its passengers.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Going back to the Waze analogy, human crowdsourcing is just one piece of the puzzle today.
    — Rohyt Belani, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Beneath the gripping plot lies an inquiry into the power of social media and crowdsourcing.
    — Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2019
  • This crowdsourcing is all protected with end-to-end encryption, and no personal data is shared.
    — David Nield, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The app used crowdsourcing to track the location of protestors and police officers in real time.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2019
  • As for the crowdsourcing component, Farid notes that a number of studies show that humans are very bad at spotting fake images.
    — James Vincent, The Verge, 23 Aug. 2018
  • Pantuso said the surge in crowdsourcing apps is expanding the bus business in some ways and adding competition in others.
    — Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Musk’s faith in the power of crowdsourcing is common in Silicon Valley.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 25 May 2018
  • Meanwhile, friends and family of the climbers began an urgent crowdsourcing campaign to help cover the mounting search and rescue costs.
    — Andrew Bisharat, National Geographic, 6 Mar. 2019
  • Just as important to Landon is the crowdsourcing project to find more information about Corbin.
    — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2018
  • The card and the polling process have changed little since the beginning and create a crowdsourcing alternative to critics’ opinions.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • More than 500 people contributed to an online crowdsourcing campaign that helped raise the money needed to lay the pipe.
    — Russell Goldman and Milan Schreuer, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2016
  • Instead of just one big release, her music unfurls as a drip-stream of puzzles that encourage crowdsourcing and theory-crafting.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Fans of Waze can now access the popular crowdsourcing map owned by Google through their vehicle's in-car display or touchscreens.
    — Kirsten Korosec, Fortune, 26 July 2017
  • The power of crowdsourcing However, Anderson and the others aren’t holding their breath.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Volunteer crowdsourcing efforts began in earnest during the pandemic.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 1 Apr. 2026

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