fives

noun

Definition of fivesnext
plural of five
as in tens

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  1. hundreds
  2. dollars
  3. hundred
Noun
  • More than 4,000 cybersecurity tools flood the market—the typical large company uses hundreds of them, pumping out data to rows of dashboards flashing alerts.
    Saket Modi, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The need for power and water grew more urgent Thursday for hundreds of thousands of residents across the Southeast a week after Helene began a deadly, devastating march as a historic Category 4 hurricane slamming onto Florida's Gulf Coast.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of hundreds
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  • The 1Malaysia Development Berhad corruption scandal consisted of Jho Low, his associate Eric Tan, and others allegedly stealing billions of dollars from the fund and misappropriating the money.
    Regina Cho, VIBE.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey lost between $250-300 million dollars a day during the strike by members of the International Longshoremen’s Association, said Bethann Rooney, the port’s director, Friday.
    Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of dollars
Noun
  • Today, hundreds of thousands of former SOCCCD students are employed in Orange County.
    Advertorial, Orange County Register, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Born in 1914, Randle was just a young girl when an angry mob of white residents destroyed Greenwood, the prosperous Black neighborhood known as Black Wall Street in 1921, killing hundreds of people and reducing 35 square blocks of thriving businesses to ashes.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 5 Nov. 2024
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