How to Use in record numbers in a Sentence

in record numbers

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  • Over the past year, subscribers have flocked to our site in record numbers.
    Rick Berke, STAT, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Schibell said health care workers are dropping out in record numbers.
    NBC News, 13 Jan. 2022
  • To many of the young men who flocked to Trump in record numbers, Musk was an ideal avatar.
    Simon Shuster, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Parents taking their kids out of the public school system in record numbers.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2025
  • The rise of child roofers comes as young people are crossing the southern border alone in record numbers.
    Hannah Dreier, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Americans are joining the queue in record numbers.
    Matthew Kayser, Ascend Agency, 16 Jan. 2026
  • In fact, the membership returned their ballots in record numbers this year.
    Zoe Hewitt, Variety, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Travelers have flocked to Las Vegas in record numbers in the last year.
    Melissa Alonso, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
  • In the workplace, trust is ebbing as employees jump ship in record numbers in quest of a better fit elsewhere.
    Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • In recent years, Black women have run for Congress in record numbers.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2023
  • Children aren’t alone in seeking resources, as parents have called crisis lines in record numbers.
    Danielle Marie Holland, Parents, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Meanwhile, non-grad Gen Zers are picking up the tools and taking up trade jobs in record numbers.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 June 2024
  • Now, with retail employees quitting in record numbers, there may be no training or fitters at all.
    Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2022
  • College graduates and families with children have left the city in record numbers.
    Raúl Vilchis Christopher Lee, New York Times, 13 July 2023
  • New Yorkers turned out in record numbers to elect the new mayor in one of the most consequential the city has seen in years.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • That said, the numbers don’t suggest sharks are suddenly hunting people in record numbers.
    Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 July 2026
  • Members of that hiring class were disciplined, arrested, charged with crimes, and fired in record numbers.
    Meg Anderson, NPR, 23 July 2026
  • About a sixth of jobs in the region are off the books, and young Neapolitans are dropping out of school and leaving the city in record numbers.
    Gianni Cipriano, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Young voters turned out in record numbers in 2020, backing Biden by a large margin.
    Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Sabrina Rodriguez, Colby Itkowitz, Meryl Kornfield, Dylan Wells, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2023
  • But a variety of factors set the stage for Americans to flock to their favorite wing joints this year in record numbers.
    Kerry J. Byrne, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2023
  • By the way, Black women are dying in record numbers during and after their pregnancies.
    Maria Shriver, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Yet in recent years, Americans have turned out to vote in record numbers — mostly to re-elect incumbents.
    Alan Blinder, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Voters lined up in record numbers this year outside their boards of election to vote early in Greater Cincinnati.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The biggest trees in my neighborhood have been dying in record numbers in recent years, especially oak trees.
    Mike Tidwell, Baltimore Sun, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Americans are hitting the roads and taking to the skies in record numbers, both at home and abroad, as the travel bug continues to grow by leaps and bounds.
    Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • No matter the destination, seniors are traveling in record numbers to all corners of the world.
    Roger Sands, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The series ended three years ago and yet pirates are still going out of their way to download the series illegally in record numbers.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Council members fielding those complaints blame the state of the fleet, with plow trucks breaking down in record numbers at critical junctures.
    Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The state is fighting a federal court order to stop allowing the water pollution that’s killing sea cows in record numbers.
    Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 June 2025
  • And now hiking clubs, the next frontier in group hobbies, are pulling Americans off their couches and onto the trails in record numbers.
    Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 July 2026

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