How to Use cruncher in a Sentence

cruncher

noun
  • And numbers crunchers will get ready for the data influx that comes only once a year.
    — Michael Marot, The Seattle Times, 14 May 2017
  • But now some number crunchers see signs of trouble in its shifting business model.
    — Tom Metcalf, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2017
  • But the budget office's number crunchers do not expect such lofty growth rates anytime soon.
    — Alan Rappeport, Alaska Dispatch News, 14 July 2017
  • Glarses' giant keyboard, on the other hand, was made with the mammoth number-cruncher in mind.
    — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Give the ice cruncher in your life the gift of their favorite ice shape, the crunchiest of all, with this countertop ice-making machine.
    — Savannah Smith, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
  • CricViz’s number-crunchers have found some evidence for the first two theories.
    — M.j., The Economist, 18 July 2019
  • Yet – and here’s the cruncher – Singer herself has not been afforded the solid foundation on which her works stands.
    — Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
  • In desperate need of shooting for years, Demps added a pair of floor-crunchers in Rondo and Tony Allen.
    — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Real estate data crunchers now produce numerous reports showing that big investors own a small slice of the housing pie.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 23 Jan. 2026
  • For the last five years, the data crunchers at Accenture have attempted to put some meat on those bones, with their latest effort out this morning.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The initial data suggested Rossi would come up two laps short, so Rossi had to trust what the number-crunchers were telling him about conserving fuel.
    — Michael Marot, sacbee.com, 24 May 2017
  • Then, just to make sure, Strode grinds Myers' body to a pulp in a giant car-cruncher as her fellow Haddonfield residents look on.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2022
  • That means those estimates can get out-of-date, said Rick Foster, Medicare’s former chief actuary, or top number-cruncher.
    — Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, The Seattle Times, 1 Oct. 2018
  • As the campaign's top data cruncher, Oczkowski sat in front of a computer and performed real-time analysis of precinct data to stay ahead of state calls and to spot any trouble on the horizon.
    — Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker Washington Post, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
  • If the idea of an unsatisfying retirement is upsetting, the number crunchers at SmartAsset have released a new ranking that should help calm those nerves.
    — Ben Baxter, AL.com, 1 June 2017
  • But as the 2018 campaign gets under way this weekend, the number-crunchers in Las Vegas see things a little differently.
    — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Next up, Estately’s data crunchers surveyed the houses for sale in the cities and determined the percentage of men and women who could afford to buy based on the median salary in the city for each gender.
    — OregonLive.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • As a result, number-crunchers are looking at how to cut TSA programs or staffing without jeopardizing security.
    — Barbara Peterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Mar. 2017
  • But every year brings at least one major electoral upset that shocks the pundits and data-crunchers, and there’s still a lot that could go wrong for Reeves this year to increase Presley’s chances of being that unicorn.
    — William Browning, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Marathon times are getting slower, says RunRepeat data cruncher Paul Ronto, and the correlation to climate change is clear.
    — Amanda Loudin, Outside Online, 15 Aug. 2019
  • London’s financial industry would be lost without number-crunchers from Italy, India and Indiana.
    — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • In later years, that amount could be reduced if an independent number cruncher agreed that less was needed to meet the city's goal of having 90 percent of the assets needed to pay benefits over the next 40 years.
    — Monique Garcia, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • The number-crunchers were working at the Capitol Thursday as a crowd of about 300 gathered outside to protest the cuts that took effect with the start of the new fiscal year on July 1.
    — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Every year since 2011, GAO number-crunchers have looked at federal programs that overlap, are fragmented or are duplicative.
    — Joe Davidson | Columnist, Washington Post, 1 May 2017
  • Ben Affleck stars as Christian Wolff, an enigmatic mathematics savant with special-ops-caliber skills who moonlights as a numbers cruncher and launderer for drug cartels.
    — Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 10 June 2017
  • Out of these, 34 drives worked together to run the specialized calculation software y-cruncher, which is designed specifically to compute mathematical constants to enormous precision.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The numbers-crunchers will tell you that Saturday’s Minnesota Wild game versus Dallas was almost certainly a preview of a first-round NHL playoff series next month.
    — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Obama’s defeat of Mitt Romney particularly infuriated Rebekah Mercer, who concluded that the pollsters, the data crunchers, and the spin doctors were all frauds.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2017
  • There were nearly 6,000 closings by the end of June, a 65% surge over the same period a year ago, according to Coresight Research, a data cruncher for the commercial real estate industry.
    — Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • My trusty spreadsheet reviewed stats from Cotality – the new name for the CoreLogic data crunchers – tracking 26 California metropolitan areas and single-family home sales that either went to primary residents or investors.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 11 Sep. 2025

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