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thousand

[thau-zuhnd] / ˈθaʊ zənd /
ADJECTIVE
having 1000 of something
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NOUN
pertaining to 1000
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Ticket prices range from 20 to 90 yuan, bringing the number sold to a few thousand at most.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

She does a couple of sponsored posts a month, prioritising local brands and charities like Age UK who paid her several thousand for a recent campaign.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

"A researcher might be able to examine a few thousand Reddit posts by hand, but looking at nearly 150,000 would be an enormous undertaking," says Sehgal.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

This has since been demonstrated a thousand times over, and much show business brain power has been dedicated to thinking up new ways to dress a handful of basic formats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

By February 1862, more than two thousand soldiers had been killed, and roughly a hundred thousand had been wounded in dozens of minor skirmishes and major battles.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

This week, thousands demonstrated in Caracas and other cities, demanding her return from exile in Panama.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

The goal: capturing the business card’s 200,000 sign-on bonus points, worth thousands of dollars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

People living thousands of miles apart have reported an extraordinarily strange experience after eating certain wild mushrooms.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

Nearly 1,000 arrests were made as hundreds of thousands of people took part in another day of protests across France which were followed by some clashes late on Saturday, officials have said.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Each CDO contained pieces of a hundred different mortgage bonds—which in turn held thousands of different loans.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis


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