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a considerable amount
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Recent Examples of hundreds
In a bid to deliver a quick turnaround, the new top executive initiated a plan to close hundreds of stores, or about 1% of its locations, in the United States and Canada.
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John Liu, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
The shutdown has resulted in the interruption of SNAP benefits for millions of Americans and hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed or working without pay.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
To replicate that in space, Google’s researchers propose a close-formation satellite cluster, where spacecraft fly just hundreds of meters apart.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
Virginia is home to around 320,000 federal workers and hundreds of thousands of federal contractors.
—Margaret Barthel, NPR, 4 Nov. 2025
And lawmakers' own employees are going without pay, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of other federal workers who've been furloughed.
—Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
While the details remain classified, the goal is to build and launch a network of hundreds of spy satellites—or maybe more—with specialized intelligence payloads into low earth orbit.
—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
That’s what happened in October 2019, when demonstrations against corruption and high unemployment broke out across Iraq, leading to street clashes that left hundreds of people dead.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2025
Hence why the brand was able to successfully connect the dots between its association with Formula 1, a sport truly practiced by only two dozen racers, but also with running, practiced by hundreds of millions of people across the globe, through its connection with the New York Marathon.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
John Liu, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2025
The shutdown has resulted in the interruption of SNAP benefits for millions of Americans and hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed or working without pay.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
To replicate that in space, Google’s researchers propose a close-formation satellite cluster, where spacecraft fly just hundreds of meters apart.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
Virginia is home to around 320,000 federal workers and hundreds of thousands of federal contractors.
—Margaret Barthel, NPR, 4 Nov. 2025
And lawmakers' own employees are going without pay, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of other federal workers who've been furloughed.
—Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
While the details remain classified, the goal is to build and launch a network of hundreds of spy satellites—or maybe more—with specialized intelligence payloads into low earth orbit.
—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
That’s what happened in October 2019, when demonstrations against corruption and high unemployment broke out across Iraq, leading to street clashes that left hundreds of people dead.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2025
Hence why the brand was able to successfully connect the dots between its association with Formula 1, a sport truly practiced by only two dozen racers, but also with running, practiced by hundreds of millions of people across the globe, through its connection with the New York Marathon.
—Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hundreds
Noun
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Chicago O’Hare, Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International, Denver International and Dallas-Fort Worth also experienced dozens of cancellations and hundreds of delays, FlightAware data shows.—
Emma Tucker,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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The original location closed more than a dozen years ago.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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But, at a moment when big narrative audio studios are shuttering, loads of people are being laid off and fewer documentary series are being made, this sentence really struck a nerve in the industry of folks who produce, write, edit and sound design longform narrative audio.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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That could mean co-locating with renewables, using batteries to extend solar availability, or making data centers flexible enough to shift heavy compute loads to periods of abundant clean power.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Qatar aims to have 11 million tons per year of CCS capacity in place by 2035.—
Manal Albarakati,
semafor.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Grating sections are approximately 5½ feet wide by 38 feet and about 5 inches deep, with each piece weighing about 2 tons.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Such is the scale of the violence that blood and piles of bodies are visible from space, according to experts at the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab.—
Guy Davies,
ABC News,
9 Nov. 2025
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And that mountain looms far larger than the piles of cash that CoreWeave has brought in the door so far.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
8 Nov. 2025
Noun
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What appear to be intercontinental ballistic missile parts can be seen parked on the tarmac as sections of old rockets sit in lots surrounded by weeds.—
Tamara Qiblawi,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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Five separate lots are up for auction, with current bids starting at $1,525 or more.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The neck of his daughter's guitar pokes out above chunks of concrete.—
Jane Arraf,
NPR,
3 Nov. 2025
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Those two buyers went on to sell chunks of their stakes to Libero Football Finance, a German company, and NIPA Capital, based in the Netherlands.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Hundreds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hundreds. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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