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• Heat 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium heat and add tortillas, as many as will fit without overlapping, and heat 1 minute per side.
  — Kelly Brant, arkansasonline.com, 6 Nov. 2024
• There are as many as a dozen trucks at the park for special events.
  — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024
• Such camps could hold as many as 3,000 migrants at a time.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
• That's one of the reasons SpaceX plans as many as 144 launches next year.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023
• Maybe not as many as we were used to, but certainly enough to keep the shop open.
  — Robert Ito, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024
• At the height of things in March, the post was feeding as many as 400 people every night.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2024
• Serbia, facing Team USA for the third time in three weeks, led by as many as 17 points and shot 54% from the field in the first half.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 8 Aug. 2024
• Perhaps as many as a dozen more states will follow suit in 2024.
  — Michael Toscano, National Review, 24 Mar. 2024
• These bite marks can take as many as 14 days to appear, according to the CDC.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
• In total, Bloomin’ plans to open as many as 45 restaurants across all of its brands in the coming year.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 26 Feb. 2024
• By some estimates, as many as 40% of the victims are men.
  — Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2024
• The women with the Aidar flag said that as many as 100 men from the battalion were now missing.
  — Oleksandr Chubko, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• The Gazan Health Ministry said as many as 700 people had been wounded.
  — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 11 June 2024
• In the fighting that ensued, Cook, four of his men, and as many as thirty Hawaiians were killed.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• The gap grew to as many as 22 points around the seven-minute mark, through Creighton cut it to 10 with two and a half minutes to go and forced UConn to seal the game at the free throw line.
  — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2024
• Female bugs can deposit one to five eggs per day and can lay as many as 500 eggs in their lifetime, Orkin says.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
• Lindahl, who is believed to have killed as many as a dozen women and girls, died in April 1981 while stabbing a man to death in Naperville.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 24 Oct. 2024
• There may be as many as half a million feral cats padding around New York City, but no one knows for sure.
  — Richard Schiffman Erin Schaff, New York Times, 8 June 2023
• Houston led by as many as 15 points in the first quarter – the sixth time this year the Lakers have been down by at least 10 at a point during the first quarter.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The King had fathered as many as thirty-five children with a multitude of wives.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
• Boston never trailed and led by as many as 26, feeding off the energy of the Garden crowd.
  — Kyle Hightower, Baltimore Sun, 18 June 2024
• The shooter used as many as three guns, including a handgun and at least one long gun, Schierbaum said.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024
• The Celtics took the lead midway through the second quarter and led by as many as 12 in the third, but the Lakers chipped away at the lead before taking it midway through the fourth.
  — Conor Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
• After trailing by as many as 14 points in the second quarter, the Thunder came back to take their first lead of the game early in the third quarter.
  — Field Level Media, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 May 2024
• In Lahaina alone, one official said that as many as 6,000 people may have lost their homes.
  — Madison Malone Kircher, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• In recent years, the court had as many as a dozen judicial vacancies.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
• Before the end, when the rocket reached a peak altitude just short of 40 km, as many as eight engines appeared to have gone out.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2023
• Some analysts warn, though, stocks reflect a lot of rate cuts – six, or twice as many as the Fed has suggested.
  — Medora Lee, The Courier-Journal, 12 June 2024
• Those events number in the dozens annually, as many as 60 within a year, Rechtin said.
  — The Enquirer, 3 Apr. 2024
• Dorsey did not provide a number of the amount of people to be affected by the job cuts, but speculation among company insiders is that as many as 100 employees could be laid off, which would amount to roughly a quarter of Tidal’s staff.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024