in record numbers
idiom
: in amounts or quantities greater than ever before
New houses are being built in record numbers.
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American visitors have flocked to Portugal in record numbers in recent years, and a new report indicates that more travelers could be there to stay.
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Melina Khan, USA Today, 28 May 2025
Even as politics and the nation’s aging air traffic infrastructure rattle the U.S. travel industry, Americans were expected to get away in record numbers.
—Kristin Scharkey, Boston Herald, 22 May 2025
In the 1990s, heroin chic surged in popularity as women flooded law schools, boardrooms, and newsrooms in record numbers — a visual counterpunch to female ambition.
—Anne Marie Chaker, Time, 18 June 2025
Short sellers are circling in record numbers, driven by bearish conviction and tactical hedging.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 17 June 2025
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Melina Khan, USA Today, 28 May 2025
Even as politics and the nation’s aging air traffic infrastructure rattle the U.S. travel industry, Americans were expected to get away in record numbers.
—Kristin Scharkey, Boston Herald, 22 May 2025
In the 1990s, heroin chic surged in popularity as women flooded law schools, boardrooms, and newsrooms in record numbers — a visual counterpunch to female ambition.
—Anne Marie Chaker, Time, 18 June 2025
Short sellers are circling in record numbers, driven by bearish conviction and tactical hedging.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 17 June 2025
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“In record numbers.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20record%20numbers. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.
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