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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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Higher yields ratchet up the amount of money needed to be spent on servicing debt, especially in the case of governments that run persistent deficits, analysts said.Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 14 Jan. 2025
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The county’s budget crunch is joined by uncertainty about whether or how incoming President Donald Trump’s administration will change the amount of federal funding schools get, including Title 1 dollars, Kluttz said.Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 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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New York is reportedly willing to eat a chunk of his contract to get a deal done.Zach Pressnell, Newsweek, 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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And the luggage deals don’t stop here, though — keep reading for more.Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 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 middle phase of life, these works imply, is the time when people are most themselves, with the greatest abundance of skill and purpose that life will ever confer.Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2025
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Sanchez made a major life shift, moving from reporting to wealth creation.Ginger Gentile, Forbes, 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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Wear layers and get cozy on the couch under a pile of blankets.Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
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To help determine what to put in the no pile, consider using the 90/90 decluttering rule.Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Jan. 2025
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“Quantity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quantity. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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