cruncher

• “Wayne Rooney has cranked up the tension ahead of tomorrow's title cruncher by revealing: I hate Liverpool.”

  Football.co.uk news feed

• “I work as a University number cruncher, which is not my passion but does me just fine for now.”

  NaBloPoMo #1: Show Me Saturday (What if No One's Watching?)

• “But even then, I remember I had a little Apple IIe and Wordstar (which, sadly, Vin STILL uses as his word cruncher of choice).”

  notes from the peanut gallery

• “I am an uninspired number cruncher and that Venn diagram is not used in the way I expect it to convey information about gnats intersecting with my teeth!”

  Mmmm. Protein.

• “For Greenspan was not a mere technician or a number cruncher.”

  Simon & Schuster: Zero-Sum Future

• “Ben, for all his many flaws (and they ARE many), is a superb number-cruncher who knows the normal partisan leans of precincts across the county, and I'll remain pessimistic unless and until we KNOW Marsden has won.”

  PROJECTED WINNER

• “He was a devout Catholic, but he also was a practical, cautious guy -- a number cruncher -- and the idea of giving up a job that suited him so well for one so different seemed a little crazy.”

  USA Today: New Ohio bishop tackles big Catholic issues

• “FiveThirtyEight. com is the best number-cruncher out there.”

  The Washington Post: The latest from FiveThirtyEight: we can have a great day in MA on Nov. 2, if we work for it!

• “An aide handed Nahda politburo member Said Ferjani a memo from a party number cruncher who predicted the party would win 50% to 55% of seats in the incoming assembly.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Moderate Islamist Party Set to Win Tunisian Vote

• “WASHINGTON—On Monday, Congress's non-partisan number cruncher released an 11-page report describing how the newly minted debt-ceiling deal would cut the deficit by at least $2.1 trillion.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Downgrade Controversy Began With Single Phone Call

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