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as in composition
a literary, musical, or artistic production
a doomsday novel that turns out to be one of those it-was-all-a-dream numbers
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as in cipher
a person of no importance or influence
doesn't want to go to some mammoth state university where she would be just a number
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as in feat
an act of notable skill, strength, or cleverness
a stunning gymnastics number that really impressed the judges
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as in calculation
numbers plural
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
if you believe the president's numbers, we can afford these new programs and still have tax cuts
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as in to aggregate
to have a total of
the full-time staff numbers 30 people
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as in to include
to have as part of a whole
is numbered among the great minds of our times
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Recent Examples of number
Jack Murray, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Nine people died in San Diego County jails last year, the lowest number in years.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
Active clients now number over 100, Cyvl disclosed.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
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Noun
The basketball committee voted earlier in the week to reduce the maximum number from 10 to six, a change that will be active for the 2025-26 season.
—Jack Murray, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Nine people died in San Diego County jails last year, the lowest number in years.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
This case numbered among the 22 financial crimes Alex pleaded guilty to.
—Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
Active clients now number over 100, Cyvl disclosed.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for number
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When the screen stabilizes and shows a four-digit code, tap New Frame in the app and follow the steps to connect the Ink to your Wi-Fi network and link it to your Aura account.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
21 Oct. 2025
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Europe has seen double-digit growth over the past two years.—
Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
20 Oct. 2025
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With their low-cost production, eco-friendly composition, and natural color appearance under sunlight, ST-OPVs could play a key role in creating energy-generating architecture.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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As for the scent itself, the composition opens with notes of Brazilian passion fruit, Romagna peach, Trentino’s red raspberry and Bulgarian rose.—
Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
23 Oct. 2025
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This act would make daylight saving time permanent and end the bi-annual tradition of changing the clocks.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
25 Oct. 2025
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The film’s tonal balancing act — mixing absurdist humor with Anderson’s trademark intensity — seemed obviously comedic to casual awards observers, and the filmmakers, along with studio awards strategists, felt similarly.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
24 Oct. 2025
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The movie, which posits an impending nuclear strike on a major American city, is a flimsy yet high-minded piece of doomsday schlock, largely populated by ciphers in suits and drained of the pulp pleasures that schlock, at its best, can afford.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2025
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Such ciphers are easy to crack using techniques such as checking letter frequency and identifying common patterns.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
7 Oct. 2025
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Staying at the top of your game that consistently is a spectacular feat for any business.—
Rachel Bernhard,
jsonline.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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From the Mercury and Gemini missions to the drama of Apollo 13, the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, and the robotic explorers roaming Mars, NASA's history is packed with daring feats and scientific firsts.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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The team’s calculations showed that the typical mass of the heavy neutrinos and the energy released from knot collapse led to the universe reheating to 100 GeV.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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Through several calculations of length, width, and depth, Manzur achieves these different sizes while guaranteeing that each basin can hold an equivalent volume of water.—
Mario Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Milei’s party, La Libertad Avanza, received 41% of votes nationwide with 92% of ballots counted, according to data published by Interior Minister Guillermo Francos on Sunday.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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Again, this would have been soft, but when Nathan Collins planted his boot in front of Gakpo’s, there was probably enough of an infringement to award a penalty, albeit the winger’s exaggerated fall may have counted against him.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2025
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After 21 days without maintenance or monitoring, even small impacts can aggregate into larger problems.—
Monica Sanders,
Forbes.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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All distance ladder methods, when aggregated together, average out to a value of 73-74 km/s/Mpc, with the best of those methods having gotten down to a 1-2% uncertainty.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Number.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/number. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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