as in dolls
a physically attractive person
promised me that she would fix me up with a ten
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Recent Examples of tens
With the passage of Thursday’s law, both sides have agreed to pull their respective measures from the November ballot, halting campaigns that had both parties amassing tens of millions in funding and blanketing the airwaves with ads.
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Rebecca Ellis,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2026
Depending on the lot’s location, a redesign or new build can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
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Beth Livesay,
AJC.com,
26 June 2026
These plates, which make up the Earth’s crust, are tens of miles thick and carry the oceans and continents.
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Sylvain Barbot,
The Conversation,
26 June 2026
Photograph by Erika Goldring / Getty Few artists have been more of a load-bearer for a scene—in this case, the reggae revival of the twenty-tens—than Original Koffee, previously just Koffee.
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Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
26 June 2026
But with the returns here worth thousands and, potentially, tens of thousands of dollars, the effort could be well worth it.
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Matt Richardson,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
SpaceX is set to tap investors for cash potentially just as Anthropic PBC and OpenAI seek to raise tens of billions of dollars in IPOs of their own as soon as this year.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
19 June 2026
Nearly a fifth of those sites are already collecting, some tens of thousands of dollars a month.
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Renana Ashkenazi,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
The result is a system in which some districts can spend tens of thousands of dollars more per student than others, with no strategic rationale to explain why a student in one community receives far more support than a student in another.
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Dr. Gisele C. Shorter,
Hartford Courant,
19 June 2026
Rebecca Ellis,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2026
Depending on the lot’s location, a redesign or new build can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
—
Beth Livesay,
AJC.com,
26 June 2026
These plates, which make up the Earth’s crust, are tens of miles thick and carry the oceans and continents.
—
Sylvain Barbot,
The Conversation,
26 June 2026
Photograph by Erika Goldring / Getty Few artists have been more of a load-bearer for a scene—in this case, the reggae revival of the twenty-tens—than Original Koffee, previously just Koffee.
—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
26 June 2026
But with the returns here worth thousands and, potentially, tens of thousands of dollars, the effort could be well worth it.
—
Matt Richardson,
CBS News,
26 June 2026
SpaceX is set to tap investors for cash potentially just as Anthropic PBC and OpenAI seek to raise tens of billions of dollars in IPOs of their own as soon as this year.
—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
19 June 2026
Nearly a fifth of those sites are already collecting, some tens of thousands of dollars a month.
—
Renana Ashkenazi,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2026
The result is a system in which some districts can spend tens of thousands of dollars more per student than others, with no strategic rationale to explain why a student in one community receives far more support than a student in another.
—
Dr. Gisele C. Shorter,
Hartford Courant,
19 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tens
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About 146 groups, made up of more than 1,400 participants, marched in the parade, with projects ranging from larger-than-life marionette dolls to squads of children in do-it-yourself costumes to mobile re-creations of LACMA’s most iconic art pieces.
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Bonnie herself has grown in subsequent sequels, and now Toy Story 5 finds her as a shy 8-year-old struggling to balance her affection for vintage dolls like Jessie with the shinier tech her peers prefer.
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The best office chairs on Amazon can fix that, ranging from our favorite overall, Herman Miller’s Aeron Office Chair, to ergonomic beauties from Branch, Flexispot, and Haworth that come cosigned by AD staffers.
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One of the beauties of sports is that fans are forced to pick a side, but there is a stark difference in cheering for your side and aggressively cheering against the opposition with zero form of decency.
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The menu will include dishes like sea bass ceviche, chicken tamales and a shrimp cocktail.
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Food and drink, of course, are among the attractions of a New Orleans journey, and the superb offerings at the hotel—under the direction of Executive Chef Dario Montelvere, a Robb Report culinary master—reflect the city’s heritage, from regional cuisine and local seafood to steakhouse dishes.
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The analysis examined how many lookers pursued both living options across 50 large metropolitan areas, as well as a national benchmark.
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The more renowned the art, the greater the number of clueless lookers, joyless collectors, donors in search of tax breaks, and steroidal museums.
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The queen of the blonde beach babes!
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Most of these songs go out to the babes.
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Options for activities include paddleboarding and chasing Arctic swells in the fjords, sailing through sea cliffs and the uninhabited Hornstrandir Nature Reserve, and spotting whales, seals, Arctic foxes, and more wildlife.
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Just as hedgehogs deplore foxes for a lack of theoretical ambition, foxes spend their time screaming at hedgehogs for missing this or that eloquent detail.
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