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Recent Examples of amount
Canned pumpkin is typically best when baking from scratch, especially when your recipe specifies exact amounts of sugar and spices.
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Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
Vehicles have become more dependent on computer chips, transistors and diodes on everything from adjusting driver’s seats to feeding the proper amount of fuel into engines and providing braking power.
—Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
Some gave me uniboob, while others created an immense amount of spillover, and some wouldn’t contain the bouncing.
—Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
Removing small amounts of the leaf blade each mowing minimizes plant stress.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Oct. 2025
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Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
Vehicles have become more dependent on computer chips, transistors and diodes on everything from adjusting driver’s seats to feeding the proper amount of fuel into engines and providing braking power.
—Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
Some gave me uniboob, while others created an immense amount of spillover, and some wouldn’t contain the bouncing.
—Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
Removing small amounts of the leaf blade each mowing minimizes plant stress.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for amount
quantity
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Granted, the quantity of aging greats is no exact barometer for the health of a division, but the drop-off in high-profile imports (Nani and Douglas Costa aside) is the least of Football Australia’s recent concerns.—
Jack Bantock,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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The potential solution presented by UCSD School of Medicine researchers is an anti-αvβ3 antibody that triggers macrophages, a type of immune cell already found in large quantities in advanced tumors.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Amount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amount. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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