amount

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 Four years later, the high court invalidated a limit on the amount of money a donor could contribute to federal candidates in a two-year election cycle. June 30, CBS News, 30 June 2025 This is the product of a huge amount of research and hard work by our team of women’s football writers: Michael Cox, Megan Feringa, Charlotte Harpur, Asli Pelit and Tamerra Griffin. Michael Cox, New York Times, 30 June 2025 The massive computing power for artificial intelligence (AI) requires enormous amounts of energy and some analysts project that within a few years, data centers could consume up to 12 percent of all the electricity the U.S. produces. Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025 That amount is about 200x less than what industry insiders estimate OpenAI spent training its GPT-4 model. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 19 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for amount
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quantity
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  • Known as the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio, the measure regulates the quantity and quality of capital banks should be keeping on their balance sheets.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 25 June 2025
  • At least there’s quantity for a change, if not enough quality.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 24 June 2025

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“Amount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amount. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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