in record numbers
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: in amounts or quantities greater than ever before
New houses are being built in record numbers.
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Crown Bees Honeybees, which are tasked with pollinating many of the agricultural crops in the United States, are dying off in record numbers.
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Martha Ann Overland, NPR, 6 Apr. 2025
Parents taking their kids out of the public school system in record numbers.
—Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2025
Americans applied for British citizenship in record numbers last year, according to Britain’s Home Office, with a big spike in applications logged during the final quarter — a period coinciding with Trump’s reelection.
—Anna Cooban, CNN, 20 Mar. 2025
There’s a sector of racialized, underpaid immigrants, doing labor white people won’t, who are getting deported and dehumanized in record numbers in recent years.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2025
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Martha Ann Overland, NPR, 6 Apr. 2025
Parents taking their kids out of the public school system in record numbers.
—Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2025
Americans applied for British citizenship in record numbers last year, according to Britain’s Home Office, with a big spike in applications logged during the final quarter — a period coinciding with Trump’s reelection.
—Anna Cooban, CNN, 20 Mar. 2025
There’s a sector of racialized, underpaid immigrants, doing labor white people won’t, who are getting deported and dehumanized in record numbers in recent years.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2025
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