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

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2
as in amount
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 quantity This test evaluates the quantity and quality of your tears to diagnose dry eye syndrome. Lindsay Curtis, Health, 10 Sep. 2025 For now, limited quantities of the handbags are available exclusively in-person at select Alo stores, showcasing the high-end craftsmanship, which deserves to be discovered firsthand through touch and experience. Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2025 But quality is your friend, not quantity. Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025 The Ryugu samples hauled home by Hayabusa2 contained larger quantities of hafnium isotopes compared to lutetium isotopes than were expected. Robert Lea, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for quantity
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Noun
  • It’s finished in a beautiful coat of light green and has loads of chrome trim and a black roof.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2025
  • There’s a lot of tradesmen, but songwriters… There’s not loads of them.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Throughout the night, a ticker with the donation amount was periodically superimposed under speeches and shown on a screen behind Bargatze.
    Rosa Escandon, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Just below that is a donation option, with amounts ranging from $25 to as much as $100,000.
    Zach LaChance, The Washington Examiner, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There’s been a ton of turnover on the pitching staffs of both teams, but the Dodgers brought in arms that were more toxic and less hittable.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • These boulders, ranging in size from several meters to hundreds of meters and weighing up to a few tons, occasionally tumble down cliffs and crater walls, leaving bright tracks of disturbed lunar dust behind.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Last time, Republicans were defending more than two dozen districts won by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016.
    W. James Antle III, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Three dozen lucky Klarna staffers just joined the ultrarich club thanks to its recent stock windfall.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For the second time in the last three season, Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow will miss a large chunk of the season.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In the worst-case scenario, a collision could smash a satellite into many more pieces of space debris, which each then go on to collide with more satellites, which produces more chunks of space junk, and so on and so forth.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • European firms still face challenges in securing access to crucial rare earths from China, a business lobby warned Wednesday, despite a July deal to speed up exports.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
  • While the event, which is being called the Prime Big Deal Days, doesn’t kick off until October 7th and 8th, the best early deals are already popping off.
    Rachel Fletcher, Architectural Digest, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • All of the particles and antiparticles of the Standard Model, even the unstable ones, were created in great abundance under these early conditions.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Progressive economists like Ezra Klein champion abundance while conservative governors slash regulations.
    Tanner H. Jones, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Earlier this year, Norway’s sovereign wealth fund proposed switching to semiannual reporting, reasoning that lengthening the time frame would allow companies to focus on the longer term.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025
  • That Musk could purchase $1 billion in stock mostly as a symbolic gesture is another indication of his massive wealth.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Quantity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quantity. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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