amounts

plural of amount
as in quantities
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 amounts Yet companies are pouring vast amounts of money into data centers and expensive software from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic. Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026 Research does not show that fruit juice consistently spikes blood sugar more than soda when carbohydrate amounts are similar. Verywell Health, 20 July 2026 Rain totals could be 2 to 4 inches with isolated higher amounts up to 8 inches for the northeastern Gulf Coast to the western Florida peninsula. Meteorologist Melissa Nord, CNN Money, 19 July 2026 If this gravitational snowball effect continues long enough, a protostar becomes massive enough for the central core’s nuclear fusion furnace to ignite, producing incredible amounts of light and radiation. Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 July 2026 This floor also has access to generous amounts of attic storage. James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 19 July 2026 The idea is to learn the structure that matters for prediction and planning without spending huge amounts of compute modeling irrelevant visual detail. ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026 Those rules deprived the United States of additional nuclear capacity that could have produced large amounts of low cost, emission-free electricity. Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 13 July 2026 Drone mapping system for volcanic eruptions Volcanoes release massive amounts of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide as rising magma experiences a drop in pressure. Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
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  • 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
  • Scientists can pore over these spectral fingerprints to reconstruct what elements created them and in what quantities.
    Rahul Rao, Space.com, 23 July 2026

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