DOZENS Synonyms: 184 Similar and Opposite Words

dozens

noun

variants or dozen

plural of dozen

as in hundreds

a considerable amount dozens of new songs were auditioned and rejected

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Recent Examples of dozens The close proximity of the plant to homes and schools led to widespread outrage and now dozens of lawsuits after residents were displaced for days. —

Jason Henry, Oc Register, 30 May 2026 Late summer and early fall have a couple dozen dates on the books but nothing in Boston yet. —

Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 30 May 2026 Commenters also mentioned several dozen compounding pharmacies — often in the same posts about telehealth. —

Maia Rosenfeld, NBC news, 29 May 2026 Five people are dead and dozens are injured after a bus failed to slow down for traffic and struck six cars on Interstate 95 near Quantico, Virginia, early Friday morning, according to Virginia State Police. —

Devon M. Sayers, CNN Money, 29 May 2026 The vote Thursday fulfilled a promise from Commissioner Adam Silver, who vowed that the league — which has changed the lottery system about a half-dozen times in the last 40 or so years — would strongly address the tanking issue before next season. —

Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026 After Republicans won state legislative majorities in roughly a dozen states and used new precinct-level mapping technology, the 2012 GPI jumped to 28 and never returned to pre-2010 levels. —

Bruce Sibley, Time, 29 May 2026 Last week, a drone strike on a bustling market in central Sudan killed 28 people and wounded dozens more. —

Fatma Khaled, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026 Family and friends of a man who died while in the Sacramento County Main Jail in 2024 gathered Thursday to raise questions about his death as well as the deaths of a dozen inmates since then. —

Theresa Clift may 29, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026

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Israel's campaign in Lebanon has killed thousands of people and driven hundreds of thousands from their homes, according to Reuters.

— Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 8 June 2026
Of the hundreds of fan videos that come out of each game, his was different from them all.

— Jared Weiss, New York Times, 8 June 2026