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 Coffee quantity One of the best aspects of a drip coffee maker is its ability to brew large quantities. Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2025 Any degradation or discontinuity in the data, whether in terms of quality or quantity, could negatively affect the model's forecasting skill, scientists warn. Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 28 June 2025 So, nuts and seeds can be bought in large quantities, but may need to be finished quicker than other bulk products. Heather Riske, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 June 2025 Known as the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio, the measure regulates the quantity and quality of capital banks should be keeping on their balance sheets. Jeff Cox, CNBC, 25 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for quantity
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Noun
  • New models no longer show significant improvements from scaling up size or the amount of training data.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 13 July 2025
  • Additional rainfall amounts of 0.5 to 1.5 inches are possible in the warned area.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • An estimated 20,000 to 25,000 tons of cigarette butts are discarded across France each year, according to the Ministry of Health.
    Lisa Klaassen, CNN Money, 1 July 2025
  • Like the Mario games, the Donkey Kong series has encompassed tons of different genres and gameplay styles throughout the years.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • But after auditioning around 300 actors and screen testing over two dozen, Gunn was at a loss.
    Daysia Tolentino, EW.com, 10 July 2025
  • By 1969—the year of Beckett’s Nobel Prize for Literature—Waiting for Godot could already be read in dozens of languages, including Albanian, Marathi, and even Icelandic.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • That being said, this might be the one Philadelphia roster that can absorb a prolonged Embiid absence during the regular season, should the big man continue to miss chunks of games.
    Tony Jones, New York Times, 12 July 2025
  • That's a group that makes up a big chunk of Trump's political base.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Look for Alphabet to deploy the Buy and Link defensive strategies — vacuuming up promising AI advertising startups and offering discounting and packaging deals to extant search customers that want to experiment with the Google AI advertising platform.
    Forrester, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • This led to many deals that initially traded well but then crashed.
    Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • An abundance of useful assets is far more powerful than a small number of exquisite ones.
    Charles Beames, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • When cap space is at an abundance but impact players aren’t as readily available on the trade and free-agent market, acquiring high-end talent becomes a bigger win than ever.
    Harman Dayal, New York Times, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Michael Ashley Schulman, chief investment officer at wealth management company Running Point Capital, told Reuters that the lingering contract negotiations could cause Canada Post’s share to drop into the teens by December 2026.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 8 July 2025
  • Her somewhat implausible problem is that her bad feelings—her irritation, her boredom—never register as such because of her beauty, her wealth, and her pedigree; so great is her beauty that even her nastiest moods feel like a sunny glow to others.
    Claire Jarvis, New Yorker, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • Clean up piles of footwear scattered across the floor and stay organized with a shoe storage cabinet.
    Ali Faccenda, People.com, 2 July 2025
  • The Wall Street Journal wrote about how the robots are getting flipped over, stuck in snow piles and some students have been found to sit on them, or trip over them, when drinking.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2025

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“Quantity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quantity. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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