so many

adjective

1
: constituting an unspecified number
can only read so many chapters each night
2
: constituting a group or pack
behaved like so many animals

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Now, more than two decades later, the research puts science behind the trauma so many first responders have been living with. John Dias, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025 How exactly did writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho take such grim history and add so many other genres and tones, from slapstick humor to Hitchcockian thrills to gentle family melodrama, into something this cohesive, timely — and funny? Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 20 Dec. 2025 There are so many great new restaurants and bars to try. Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 20 Dec. 2025 Jenni Kayne rarely goes on sale, and so many wardrobe staples and home decor are 25% off right now. Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for so many

Word History

First Known Use

1533, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of so many was in 1533

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“So many.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/so%20many. Accessed 21 Dec. 2025.

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