quantities

plural of quantity
1
as in loads
a considerable amount I wish you quantities of happiness in the New Year

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2
as in amounts
a given or particular mass or aggregate of matter they prepared a huge quantity of mashed potatoes for the feast

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Recent Examples of quantities Build a live, searchable directory of Lagos fashion capacity—minimum order quantities, lead times, specializations—and connect it to wholesale marketplaces and diaspora retail partners. Essence, 6 Nov. 2025 This tea contains caffeine, and drinking large quantities of it may cause side effects. Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 3 Nov. 2025 The line will roll out in limited quantities starting this fall, with future capsule releases planned. Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 3 Nov. 2025 This development offers a potential breakthrough for aviation decarbonization by using repurposing waste that is already available in large quantities. Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025 Samsung makes the kind of high-performance memory Nvidia uses in large quantities, alongside its AI chips, called high bandwidth memory. Kif Leswing, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2025 Despite rising walnut prices, relatively small quantities still fetch modest payments. Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 31 Oct. 2025 Cookware that shows up in super limited quantities usually feels gimmicky to me. Alaina Chou, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Oct. 2025 The latest shipments represent much bigger quantities in a short space of time. Melissa Bell, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • By then, California officials said people had already begun receiving their full benefit amounts, including in Sacramento County.
    Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Alphabet shares are beating Meta Platforms shares by more than 40 percentage points year to date, for instance, with the disparity coming down almost entirely to investors' current level of faith in each company's smarts in deploying similar amounts of data-center capex.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Qatar aims to have 11 million tons per year of CCS capacity in place by 2035.
    Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The original location closed more than a dozen years ago.
    Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The neck of his daughter's guitar pokes out above chunks of concrete.
    Jane Arraf, NPR, 3 Nov. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Of course, the most popular picks among winter sports enthusiasts take them to the nation’s mightiest mountain ranges, with technique-testing terrain, breathtaking views, and piles of powder.
    Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 10 Nov. 2025
  • His investing strategy has turned on an incessant search for value, with Berkshire Hathaway often sitting on giant piles of cash until just the right deal comes through.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • At the same time, Stryker paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to help develop its own devices.
    Elizabeth B. Kim, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Nov. 2025
  • On Monday, he was posthumously named a national hero of Indonesia – prompting protests from human rights groups and victims who decried the award as whitewashing a repressive regime that left hundreds of thousands dead, according to historians.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Major grocery chains are offering cost-conscious Thanksgiving meal bundles in response to rising food prices.
    Olivia Evans, Louisville Courier Journal, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Its dactyl clubs are composed of layers of fibers; some form herringbone patterns, while others are made of corkscrew-like bundles.
    Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025

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