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 Those amounts can rise over successive renewals as companies accept larger retentions to control premiums or carriers tighten coverage terms. Randy Sadler, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026 Russia’s sizable military has enough manpower to sustain a war of attrition and enough productive capacity to generate massive amounts of missiles and drones. Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026 The president has amassed significant amounts of crypto wealth while in office, complicating dynamics for senators drafting legislation to try to bring the fledgling digital assets industry into the mainstream. ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026 Strands that were already chemically treated or damaged took on even higher amounts, mostly around the cuticle layer. Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 14 Sep. 2026 Such counterfeit pills have repeatedly been found laced with fentanyl, which can be deadly when taken in small amounts. Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026 Inference refers to the actual running of AI versus training, where huge amounts of data are used to improve the underlying models. Samantha Subin,arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026 Maui could receive 2 to 4 inches, with locally higher amounts approaching 8 inches. Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026 Xylitol falls somewhere in the middle, generally well-tolerated in small amounts but problematic in larger doses. Lauren Panoff, Verywell Health, 6 Sep. 2026
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quantities
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  • While scaling back orders, Cabasse applauded suppliers’ increasing flexibility to work with smaller quantities, name-checking Gratacós and Dutel Creation as two examples.
    Ellen Groves, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026
  • NeoteAI Another approach to scaling tactile data could be to piggyback on the vast quantities of visual robotics data already collected.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2026

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“Amounts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amounts. Accessed 15 Sep. 2026.

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