as in dozen
a considerable amount
it seems like we've answered this question hundreds of times
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as in dozens
a considerable amount
it seems like we've answered this question hundreds of times
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Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 5 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
The birds have strutted the streets for hundreds of years, arriving in the 1600s with some of the earliest European colonists, according to the New York Public Library.
—Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
Amazon is already host to hundreds of discounts on roller suitcases, weekender bags, and luggage sets, but Prime members get access to the most impressive deals found on the site.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2024
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These findings, the scientists stressed, could have major effects on how people control problematic mosquito vectors like Aedes aegypti, which infect hundreds of millions of people with disease-causing viruses every year.
—Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 5 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
The birds have strutted the streets for hundreds of years, arriving in the 1600s with some of the earliest European colonists, according to the New York Public Library.
—Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
Amazon is already host to hundreds of discounts on roller suitcases, weekender bags, and luggage sets, but Prime members get access to the most impressive deals found on the site.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 26 Oct. 2024
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“Hundred.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hundred. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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