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as in plenty
an amount or supply more than sufficient to meet one's needs
a biology textbook that is helpfully illustrated with a plethora of excellent illustrations
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as in surplus
the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed
the author offers a plethora of detail that tends to overwhelm the reader
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Recent Examples of plethora
Texas has a plethora of trails to cross, mountains to climb and sights to see.
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Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 June 2025
This is particularly true for the theory of supersymmetry, a favorite among theorists, some of whom have tailored a plethora of predictions explaining away the muon g−2 anomaly as a product of as-yet-unseen supersymmetric particles.
—Eleni Petrakou, Scientific American, 8 June 2025
Wayfair has a wide selection of modern farmhouse pieces, including styles from Trisha Yearwood Home, Martha Stewart, and Gracie Oaks, which boast a plethora of five-star ratings.
—Ali Faccenda, People.com, 7 June 2025
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has posted a plethora of information detailing their winter hibernation periods, reproductive cycles, and how the statewide infestation is likely due to pet lizards escaping or being abandoned by their owners.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 7 June 2025
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Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 June 2025
This is particularly true for the theory of supersymmetry, a favorite among theorists, some of whom have tailored a plethora of predictions explaining away the muon g−2 anomaly as a product of as-yet-unseen supersymmetric particles.
—Eleni Petrakou, Scientific American, 8 June 2025
Wayfair has a wide selection of modern farmhouse pieces, including styles from Trisha Yearwood Home, Martha Stewart, and Gracie Oaks, which boast a plethora of five-star ratings.
—Ali Faccenda, People.com, 7 June 2025
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has posted a plethora of information detailing their winter hibernation periods, reproductive cycles, and how the statewide infestation is likely due to pet lizards escaping or being abandoned by their owners.
—Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 7 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plethora
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At the end of the Cryogenian, when the ice melted and the frozen continents thawed, a surplus of nutrient-rich meltwater flooded Earth.—
David Bressan,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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Today, the company focuses on securing land with surplus electricity — renewable, solar, wind, nuclear, grid or off-grid — and reliable internet connectivity.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
20 June 2025
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Can the sport maneuver around a host of U.S. traffic — no top-tier American driver, an abundance of NASCAR competition and a European-race television schedule that’s more breakfast-time than primetime — to finally get out of the pack?—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
26 June 2025
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The calculations of Big Bang nucleosynthesis, which correctly predict the abundances of hydrogen and helium in the Universe, put strict constraints on how much light-emitting matter there can be, and that number simply isn’t large enough to accommodate all these disparate results.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
25 June 2025
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The lavish display of money and excess has provoked backlash from local residents and environmental demonstrators who protest the use of the Unesco world heritage site as a playground for the super-rich.—
Karen Gilchrist,
CNBC,
27 June 2025
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An excess of Helena, which no one, least of all me, wanted.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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There must be a better distribution of wealth for all of God's children in this country.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
26 June 2025
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Like many women who have created literary salons or used their wealth and privilege to put themselves at the center of things, Sylvia Lynd is now mainly remembered—if at all—for her weekly parties at 5 Keats Grove, Hampstead.—
Nicola Wilson
June 26,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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“Plethora.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plethora. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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