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as in loads
a considerable amount
I wish you quantities of happiness in the New Year
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Recent Examples of quantity
Redacted government documents posted online Thursday show the deal covers new Massive Ordnance Penetrators, though the exact quantity and final cost remain classified.
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Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 16 Feb. 2026
Together, national guardsmen and California Highway Patrol officers had seized more than 34,000 pounds of fentanyl, Newsom said, a quantity whose street value officials estimated at $506 million.
—Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 15 Feb. 2026
Kim in recent months has sent thousands of troops and large quantities of military equipment, including artillery and missiles, to fuel Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, as the leaders align i n the face of their separate confrontations with Washington.
—ABC News, 15 Feb. 2026
They can also be seen during their fall peak around the end of September through the beginning of October, but not in as large of quantities.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026
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Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 16 Feb. 2026
Together, national guardsmen and California Highway Patrol officers had seized more than 34,000 pounds of fentanyl, Newsom said, a quantity whose street value officials estimated at $506 million.
—Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 15 Feb. 2026
Kim in recent months has sent thousands of troops and large quantities of military equipment, including artillery and missiles, to fuel Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, as the leaders align i n the face of their separate confrontations with Washington.
—ABC News, 15 Feb. 2026
They can also be seen during their fall peak around the end of September through the beginning of October, but not in as large of quantities.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quantity
Noun
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Autonomous aircraft can move smaller loads more discreetly.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Feb. 2026
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For larger loads, the company recommends using two tiles.—
Joseph Erbentraut,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 Feb. 2026
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Because there’s a maximum efficiency that solar panels can reach (currently topping out at about 20%), that means the way to get larger and larger amounts of power is simply to build a series of large-enough solar panels that are within mission feasibility to provide that essential energy.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
24 Feb. 2026
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Eco effort Like most places in this wildfire-prone part of the state, landscaping is kept to mostly native or drought-tolerant plants that don’t require a huge amount of water.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Feb. 2026
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In the majority of cases, those cleansers created tons of lush foam, utilized in part to create an illusion of a deeper clean.—
Emily Orofino,
Vogue,
19 Feb. 2026
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Llobet played tons of DIY gigs with a rotating cast of friends over the years that followed, but no one completed youbet quite like Prussack, a New Jersey native and fellow rock lifer.—
Simon Vozick-Levinson,
Rolling Stone,
19 Feb. 2026
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Satellite imagery of the Imam Ali Missile Base in Khorramabad, captured on January 5, shows that of the dozen structures destroyed by Israel, three have been rebuilt, one has been repaired while three others are currently under construction.—
Farida Elsebai,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 2026
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has responded with a more aggressive stance toward drug cartels than her predecessor, that has included sending dozens of drug trafficking prisoners to the United States for prosecution.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Feb. 2026
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Costs have soared since the original project was conceived more than a decade ago, and a sizable chunk of the hotel tax funds is now being used instead for repairs.—
Lori Weisberg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
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More than 200,000 Bay Staters remained in the dark Tuesday evening, with MEMA’s power outage map showing large chunks of Barnstable and Plymouth counties greatly affected.—
Lance Reynolds,
Boston Herald,
24 Feb. 2026
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As part of the CEAC deal, Google will inject $50 million to support Xcel’s Capacity Connect program, which will install many smaller batteries across the grid to increase power capacity and make the system more reliable.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Feb. 2026
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Room for Disagreement Even so, UBS got the deal of the century, a team of Dutch, Swiss, and British researchers found in a post-mortem of the Credit Suisse deal.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
25 Feb. 2026
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There are a few commonalities between the two, chiefly the abundance of alcohol consumption, the significance of costuming and the presence of king cake.—
Carlie Procell,
USA Today,
18 Feb. 2026
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Serviceberries are among the earliest trees to flower in spring, producing an abundance of white blossoms that host a diversity of pollinators.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
18 Feb. 2026
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After the Apollo samples were returned to Earth and analyzed, textbooks were updated with a wealth of new information about the moon.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
21 Feb. 2026
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What does this wealth tax in California do?—
Paris Barraza,
USA Today,
21 Feb. 2026
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“Quantity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quantity. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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