How to Use gamification in a Sentence

gamification

noun
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  • The trick was to do it in a unique way, hence the gamification.
    — Karin Eldor, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The gamification system works like this: In the morning, Mario salutes you.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 15 July 2021
  • This method of crowdsourcing and gamification has paid off in the past.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2020
  • So, use a kind of gamification and make people feel and see that changes will be done and the information applied.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
  • There’s also a broader field of study around the gamification of daily life.
    — Todd Martens Game Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021
  • This could include the gamification of the league’s games via app, which would arm the league with more data to further engage its audience.
    — Mckenna Moore, Fortune, 26 May 2020
  • The Acorns and Qapital apps use a more subtle form of gamification.
    — Star Tribune, 30 Jan. 2021
  • Fans, in their turn, get a chance to become cocreators, while supporting their favorite artists in an easy and fun way, thanks to gamification.
    — Mattias Tengblad, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2021
  • While Hon warns of the dangers of gamification, his book is not entirely a tech apostate’s account.
    — Rhoda Feng, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Some Democratic lawmakers have blamed gamification for the boom in retail trading that helped drive the rise in GameStop shares.
    — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 5 May 2021
  • The deals include some flashy health tech—including a form of gamification for pain and anxiety.
    — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2020
  • The engines driving this change are home-grown players using AI and gamification to skill India’s youth.
    — Shahan Sud, Quartz India, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The Trump app is built around a gamification system that offers users prizes for encouraging their friends to download the software.
    — Robert McMillan, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2020
  • The idea behind the gamification of entire token ecosystems brought Yanpolskiy to make his own play-to-earn gaming guild, CGU.io.
    — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 14 Nov. 2021
  • And the European far right have adopted some of the strategies of gamification and propaganda used by the Americans alt right.
    — Madeline Roache, Time, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Another complaint from claimants relates to a sense of gamification in the system.
    — Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • To me, gamification is a scientist who wants to get a lot of data about something and [decides to] turn a lab experiment into a game.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
  • This is very much in line with my understanding of how the gamification trend in workplaces operates.
    — Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2018
  • But founders of apps that use gamification to track and encourage shifts in behavior say that there is already evidence the tools can inspire some changes.
    — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 2 May 2022
  • But can gamification be used more widely in shopping apps?
    — Elad Natanson, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • Pierce also believes there’s something in all of us that loves to win, which is why gamification is so successful in general.
    — Ashira Prossack, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • This gamification of meter readings is a clever way to encourage folks to submit them more often.
    — Simon Hill, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Nongaming apps use gamification to tap into this too (consider Duolingo’s streaks or the challenges and leagues in fitness apps).
    — Pascal Bornet, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The gamification of high-yield savings accounts is expected to be a thing as interest rates continue to rise.
    — Martine Paris, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Quiplash, a gamification of Mad Libs where players compete to come up with the funniest answers to prompts; and Drawful, a sillier version of Pictionary.
    — Alyse Stanley, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The gamification of education on disinformation campaigns has been shown to help build up a resistance to fake news in the past.
    — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2019
  • In the following years, numerous fatal crashes involved the speed filter in some way, leading to a gamification of driving by some young Snapchat users.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 20 June 2021
  • And gamification is one important way that Wall Street has onboarded young people to now expect that.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2023
  • For banks and financial-services companies, gamification is seen as a way to attract younger users.
    — Suman Bhattacharyya, WSJ, 10 May 2022
  • The change comes as the app faces growing scrutiny over what critics say is a gamification of trading that masks the potential for real losses in the financial markets.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 31 Mar. 2021

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