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
They do not end up in the “classic” bell-shaped curve Siraj and I were expecting.
From Literature
The 328 senators of the previous 50 years have illustrated the tyranny of the bell-shaped curve: a few of them dreadful, a few excellent, most mediocre.
From Washington Post
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 Literature
“It’s a bell-shaped curve, with some people getting sick for just a few days and others having symptoms that last longer than two weeks,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times
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