HUNDREDS Synonyms: 184 Similar and Opposite Words

hundreds

noun

variants or hundred

plural of hundred

as in dozens

a considerable amount it seems like we've answered this question hundreds of times

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Recent Examples of hundreds As the hundreds of thousands of people made their way down the narrow roads following the politician, a few rerouted into the industry event, still carrying big flags and with faces lit up with hope. — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026 Like hundreds of others around the country, the school was closed. — Nicolas Garriga, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026 In 2008, Amazon paid $300 million to purchase the audiobook company Audible, a deal that gave listeners access to hundreds of thousands of titles. — Brian Raftery, Vanity Fair, 6 Oct. 2026 What began as a massive peaceful march turned violent when groups of hundreds of hardcore activists clashed with police, throwing stones and setting fire to trash containers. — ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026 Since its inception, STM has donated $75M worth of instruments and technology to over 2,800 schools – impacting millions of students’ lives in hundreds of communities nationwide. — Paul Grein, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2026 Hackers hit Georgia Power’s online customer portal last week, exposing information of hundreds of thousands of customers and fueling the debate over online security in a digital economy. — Kristi Swartz, AJC.com, 6 Oct. 2026 You get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars — millions — to be places. — Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026 And to his hundreds of millions of followers on X, Musk reposted an image of Gibney with a poop emoji on his head. — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026

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Noun

For Le Labo, Deborah Royer, global brand president and creative director, said the brand still operates with the mindset of an indie — even a dozen years post-acquisition.

— Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
Israeli strikes in northern and southern Gaza killed three Palestinians and wounded at least a dozen others, according to health officials at Gaza hospitals.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of dozens

Noun

This is the kind of test that quickly separates a power station that merely has an impressive number printed on its case from one with an inverter and battery management system capable of handling tough, real-world loads.

— Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026
Data collected from the test rig could allow manufacturers to design heat pumps and heat exchangers for high temperatures, large loads, and changing conditions.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026

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According to Colombian police accounts cited by El Tiempo, Pulido coordinated the shipment of approximately two tons of cocaine and 17 kilograms of heroin to Europe in 1999.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026
Moscow — By agreeing to open Russia’s taps and release hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel into a starving global market, the Kremlin has achieved something that raw military might on the battlefields of eastern Ukraine could never deliver.

— Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of tons

Noun

There simply wasn’t enough of either scattered across the piles, the team found.

— Mike McRae October 06, New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2026
Nearby, the neat rows of grapevines and fig trees his family had tended for three generations had vanished under piles of rubble.

— Ghada Abdulfattah, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of piles

Noun

This was a three-day decision with lots and lots of heartache.

— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
Kevin Oglesby of the Black Hammock pointed out that Pappy’s Patch land could today be developed with 17 homes with five acre lots under the county’s code.

— Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of lots

Noun

The Hero With a Tragic Backstory Below stars Josh Hartnett as Calvin Penney, a fisherman fallen on hard times who now retrieves chunks of floating Arctic ice to be used in making vodka and reluctantly AirBnBs his home to tourists.

— Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
Add the flour, chocolate chunks and about three-quarters of the broken graham crackers and stir with a rubber spatula until combined and all the flour is absorbed.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026

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