as many as
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—used to suggest that a number or amount is surprisingly large
As many as 60 students competed for the prize.
They lost by as many as 20 points.
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According to one scholar, as many as one million African men, women, and children were spared enslavement as a direct result of slave ship resistance.
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Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
The California Farm Bureau Federation further reported that, across the state, as many as 400k tons of grapes were left to shrivel on vines because their growers couldn’t find buyers.
—Kelli María Korducki, thehustle.co, 5 Dec. 2025
Two 1/2 years into the war, almost 13 million people have been displaced, as many as 400,000 have been killed, and millions are facing famine.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2025
The rationale for giving the vaccine right away is to wipe out an infection that will afflict the majority of people who contract it as babies for the rest of their life (and, for as many as a quarter of those chronically infected, result in their death from cirrhosis or liver cancer).
—Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2025
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Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
The California Farm Bureau Federation further reported that, across the state, as many as 400k tons of grapes were left to shrivel on vines because their growers couldn’t find buyers.
—Kelli María Korducki, thehustle.co, 5 Dec. 2025
Two 1/2 years into the war, almost 13 million people have been displaced, as many as 400,000 have been killed, and millions are facing famine.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2025
The rationale for giving the vaccine right away is to wipe out an infection that will afflict the majority of people who contract it as babies for the rest of their life (and, for as many as a quarter of those chronically infected, result in their death from cirrhosis or liver cancer).
—Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2025
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“As many as.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20many%20as. Accessed 9 Dec. 2025.
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