How to Use number cruncher in a Sentence

number cruncher

noun
  • The number crunchers in Washington are expecting a budget surplus by the fall.
  • And good number crunchers are sometimes bad exascale sifters.
    — Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2010
  • While the stereotype is that label offices are solely stocked with out-of-touch number crunchers, that’s not entirely true.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2025
  • There’s probably some number crunchers at the BAA asking the same thing right now.
    — Shira Springer, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2018
  • 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
  • More records cascaded down as the number crunchers had a field day in updating the IPL log books.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • 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 tastemakers gave way to the number crunchers, and now the number crunchers are sending the TV channels off to the vultures.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The director is appointed by Congress, but beyond that, staff members are career numbers crunchers.
    — Justin Wolfers, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • Government number crunchers were temporarily idled in October, so were unable to collect housing prices that month.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 12 May 2026
  • 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
  • British number cruncher Ian Stewart successfully crosses over.
    — Sarah Stanley, Discover Magazine, 14 June 2011
  • He’s considered the club’s expert number cruncher, analyzing each player card for any possible advantage.
    — Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • At least that's what a snapshot analysis by a leading Texas political number cruncher shows of the first few days of early voting for the March 5 primaries.
    — John C. Moritz, Austin American-Statesman, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The office — the Legislature’s own highly respected number cruncher — issued a much more pessimistic forecast.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Lichtman eschews the more defensible probabilistic forecasts like the ones from Nate Silver and other number crunchers.
    — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Like other federal agencies, the Labor Department has furloughed the number crunchers who assemble the report, so it won't be released until the government shutdown is resolved.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Like some of his Soviet predecessors, Putin seems to be wagering that huge military expenditures, managed by economic number crunchers, can save, rather than bankrupt, the country.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 10 July 2024
  • 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
  • Official number crunchers didn’t account for Chiefs ticket sales and overall consumer engagement (boost in merch sales, marketing for fashion brands) in their findings, so Swift and her peers might be drawing attention to the NFL in ways not yet known to man.
    — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2025
  • But now Trump's attacks against the BLS are raising concerns that the government's number crunchers will be politically motivated, which is fueling worries about the integrity of the country's economic data.
    — Maria Aspan, NPR, 9 Sep. 2025

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