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as in loads
a considerable amount
I wish you quantities of happiness in the New Year
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Recent Examples of quantity
Classical computers training on quantum data—electronic, magnetic, and other information describing the behavior of a quantum system—require enormous quantities of data and processing time.
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Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Espresso is bold, creamy, and intensely concentrated, while coffee is lighter and often served in much larger quantities.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2025
Fashion for Good launched World of Waste, an online tool that provides an overview of data on waste quantities, types and compositions as well as links to the original studies.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 31 Dec. 2024
The next step is to get the human body to produce these antibodies in greater quantities.
—Rob Reddick, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2024
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Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Espresso is bold, creamy, and intensely concentrated, while coffee is lighter and often served in much larger quantities.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2025
Fashion for Good launched World of Waste, an online tool that provides an overview of data on waste quantities, types and compositions as well as links to the original studies.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 31 Dec. 2024
The next step is to get the human body to produce these antibodies in greater quantities.
—Rob Reddick, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quantity
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If there’s a higher-than-normal amount of street stylers sporting Tabis in Florence this season, there’s a good reason.—
Acielle / Style Du Monde,
Vogue,
14 Jan. 2025
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The prices now fluctuate based on supply and demand, researchers said, and in high-end restaurants, sea bugs can still cost shockingly high amounts.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
14 Jan. 2025
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Winning Super Bowls and putting up a ton of points with New England.—
John Romano,
Orlando Sentinel,
16 Jan. 2025
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Blue Origin says this rocket—named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth—can carry almost 50 tons of payload to low Earth orbit and put more than 14 tons into geostationary orbit.—
Rob Pegoraro,
PCMAG,
16 Jan. 2025
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Then President Trump will have to undertake a two-and-a-half-month campaign with a dozen or more mass rallies to explain the bill to the American people.—
Newt Gingrich,
Orlando Sentinel,
11 Jan. 2025
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There are dozens of unexplained incursions of our airspace every year.—
Scott Simon,
NPR,
11 Jan. 2025
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That’s a problem because interest is already swallowing up a greater chunk of the annual federal budget than defense spending.—
Matt Egan,
CNN,
14 Jan. 2025
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Further rummaging yielded a second chunk of rock that seemed to fit right in front of the first, like a face.—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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Since that last deal was inked, WNBA coaching salaries have eclipsed $1 million for the first time.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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Evercore is a midcap deal advisor that Morgan Stanley sees as a way to play the return of mergers and acquisitions.—
Kelly Evans,
CNBC,
17 Jan. 2025
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Ocean Water More uninformed complaints came in the form of the observation that L.A. is situated next to the Pacific Ocean, a seemingly inexhaustible abundance of water with which to put out fires.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
10 Jan. 2025
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The research is expected to provide an abundance of data on how Earth's atmosphere and climate have evolved, offering crucial insights into the dynamics of ice age cycles and the role of atmospheric carbon in climate change.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
9 Jan. 2025
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Some of the settlers are driven by fear, some by zealotry and others by the promises of limitless wealth, but in this moment, life is unquestionably solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Jan. 2025
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If the sole aim of a company is to profit, extraction and exploitation become the norm as businesses seek new resources to commodify The theory of shareholder wealth maximization has, in recent years, been met with significant scrutiny.—
Aissa Dearing,
JSTOR Daily,
9 Jan. 2025
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Perhaps the elder Buffett has softened his opinion on dividends as Berkshire’s cash pile continued to smash records.—
Yun Li,
CNBC,
19 Jan. 2025
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My 8-year-old pointed out the piles of windblown ash by the curb.—
Katharine Gammon,
The Atlantic,
19 Jan. 2025
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“Quantity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quantity. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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