bell-shaped curve
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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I just always thought, “Oh, I’ll be on that smallest part of the bell-shaped curve forever and I’ll probably be kind of lonely there. And that’s just what it is in this lifetime.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025
Roenneberg has collected data from 300,000 people and found that chronotypes plot as a bell-shaped curve, with a few individuals at each extreme and most falling somewhere in the middle.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2019
Dr. Roenneberg has collected data from 300,000 people and found that chronotypes plot as a bell-shaped curve, with a few individuals at each extreme and most falling somewhere in the middle.
From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2018
This bell-shaped curve is used in almost all disciplines.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 19, 2013
The children of tall men and women were certainly taller than the mean height of the population, but they too varied in a bell-shaped curve, with some taller and some shorter than their parents.*
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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