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Joy Dong, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
Over the last seven years, DCS has sent tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to companies managed by Lasting Change, which has deep political connections in Indiana.
—Tony Cook, ProPublica, 28 Nov. 2023
This might not be an issue for someone like Thomas, who earned tens of millions of dollars over his superlative NFL career.
—Adam Singer, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
The two also took tens of millions of public school dollars for their own personal use.
—Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
Citizens, based in Providence, R.I., is spending tens of millions of dollars hiring former First Republic staffers.
—Rachel Louise Ensign, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2023
After shedding tens of thousands of workers early on, airlines have been on a hiring spree since late 2020.
—David Koenig, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2023
That was the late Nativo Lopez, a pioneering Chicano activist and Santa Ana Unified School District trustee who helped kick-start Orange County’s purple-politics transformation in the mid-1990s by registering tens of thousands of Latinos to vote.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
A day before the protest at the D.N.C., a pro-Israel rally drew tens of thousands to the capital, including Democratic leaders from both the House and Senate.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
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Word History
Middle English, going back to Old English tīen (West Saxon), tēn, going back to Germanic *tehun (whence also Old Frisian tiān, tiēn "ten," Old Saxon tehan, Old High German zehan, Old Norse tíu, Gothic taihun), going back to Indo-European *deḱm̥, whence also Old Irish deich "ten," Welsh deg, Latin decem, Old Church Slavic desętĭ, Lithuanian dẽšimt, Albanian dhjetë, Greek déka, Armenian tasn, Tocharian A śäk, Tocharian B śak, Avestan dasa, Sanskrit daśa
Note: The Slavic, Baltic, and perhaps Albanian forms are derived from the ordinal base *deḱm̥-t-.
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Ten.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ten. Accessed 6 Dec. 2023.
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