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as in composition
a literary, musical, or artistic production
a doomsday novel that turns out to be one of those it-was-all-a-dream numbers
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as in cipher
a person of no importance or influence
doesn't want to go to some mammoth state university where she would be just a number
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as in feat
an act of notable skill, strength, or cleverness
a stunning gymnastics number that really impressed the judges
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as in calculation
numbers plural
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
if you believe the president's numbers, we can afford these new programs and still have tax cuts
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as in to aggregate
to have a total of
the full-time staff numbers 30 people
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as in to include
to have as part of a whole
is numbered among the great minds of our times
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Recent Examples of number
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2025
Fake Apple virus warnings, security alerts and messages are all tactics used to prompt you to call a number or click on a malicious link.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
Katie Butler, a Department of Education lawyer, knew her days with the agency were numbered.
—Cherise Halsall, ABC News, 20 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Letters may be up to 200 words and must be signed with your email address, city of residence and daytime phone number for verification.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2025
Fake Apple virus warnings, security alerts and messages are all tactics used to prompt you to call a number or click on a malicious link.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Verb
Meghan sent jars of jam to her celebrity friends, including Kaling, with labels numbered from one to 50.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
Katie Butler, a Department of Education lawyer, knew her days with the agency were numbered.
—Cherise Halsall, ABC News, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for number
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Given the set’s ever-expanding streaming volume, it’s expected to post units in the six digits in its second week, and be a tough album for even a star duo like Gomez and Blanco to unseat atop the Billboard 200.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
26 Mar. 2025
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The best comparison for the distinctive digits among living animals would be the claws of a sloth, used for hanging onto tree branches, Zelenitsky added.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN,
25 Mar. 2025
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This collaborative mindset shapes everything from their approach to retail design, adaptive reuse of public buildings, or material selection processes that consider factors like embodied carbon, circularity, and chemical composition.—
Christopher Marquis,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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By analyzing basalt fragments retrieved from this region, the scientists discovered that these rocks share a similar composition to low-titanium basalts previously collected by NASA's Apollo missions to the moon's near side.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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There’s a real power in the Chocolate Drops getting back together at this moment in time, after the group helped spawn so many new acts in the past decade.—
Jonathan Bernstein,
Rolling Stone,
23 Mar. 2025
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Opening acts in select cities include Marshmello, The All-American Rejects and Boys Like Girls.—
Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
23 Mar. 2025
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Since his first appearance in season one, though, Greg has been more than a bit of a cipher.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
10 Mar. 2025
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All the actors make assertive impressions that can nonetheless only go so far in delineating figures who remain basically ciphers.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
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There’s an irony that Van Lith will have to go through her former team to accomplish this feat.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Mar. 2025
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That’s no easy feat and this is where automation can come in and support human endeavours.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes,
22 Mar. 2025
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What initiatives, clients, and/or offerings weigh the most in your performance evaluation, raise and bonus calculations and promotion decisions?—
Caroline Ceniza-Levine,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Her son simply made a statistical calculation based on probability theory and realized that the odds of both lunches being wrong were considerably different from the odds of a single order getting messed up.—
Rob Long,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Mar. 2025
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Votes by email and after 5 p.m. Wednesday are not counted.—
Christian Babcock,
The Mercury News,
20 Mar. 2025
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Murder victim's family has been 'counting down the minutes' until South Carolina execution Texas pastor with simple dream killed in his own church.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA TODAY,
20 Mar. 2025
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Data from the sensors and other sources of CRE information such as wayfinding or reservations will be aggregated to help owners make determinations about office layouts, design and equipment expenditures and lowering buildings’ carbon footprints.—
Jeffrey Steele,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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The most job openings in San Diego County in February were for nurses, according to state data that aggregates job postings during the month.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Number.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/number. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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