amount

Definition of amountnext
as in quantity
a given or particular mass or aggregate of matter is this small amount of food supposed to feed the whole hockey team?

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Recent Examples of amount Losing Bellinger for any amount of time would be a significant blow for the Yankees, whose depth continues to get tested on the position player side. Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 26 July 2026 Clean energy projects like wind turbines, solar farms and transmission networks still need a significant amount of land and materials, along with taking several years to complete and releasing emissions during construction. Indrabati Lahiri, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026 Dose limits set the maximum amount of radiation the public and radiation workers can be exposed to, while ALARA kept radiation exposure as low as practical under those limits. ABC News, 26 July 2026 Neocloud CoreWeave has total debt of about 739 times its amount of equity, while Nebius has a debt-to-equity ratio of 131. Tobias Burns, CNBC, 26 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for amount
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  • Fuel-cell systems remain expensive, while producing sufficient quantities of low-carbon hydrogen continues to be an obstacle in many regions.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 July 2026
  • The technology underlying chatbots such as Claude and ChatGPT uses patterns in data by analyzing vast quantities of digital text and video from the internet.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026

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“Amount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amount. Accessed 27 Jul. 2026.

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