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The plans include 44 cottages and six buildings with two apartment buildings of 94 units, a 24-unit memory care building, a clubhouse, spa and private restaurant, set around resident amenities such as a pool, trails, gardens and pickleball courts.
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Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Justin Scott and Malik Bryant went with the second unit that also included Armondo Blount and Malik Bryant on the edge.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 1 Sep. 2025
Powering the world According to reports, the combined power output of these reactors avoids around 8 million tonnes of CO₂ per year per unit (or about 3 million tonnes of coal equivalent).
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2025
The goal of the vaccine is to keep people out of the hospital, keep them out of the intensive-care unit, keep them out of the morgue.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2025
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Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Justin Scott and Malik Bryant went with the second unit that also included Armondo Blount and Malik Bryant on the edge.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 1 Sep. 2025
Powering the world According to reports, the combined power output of these reactors avoids around 8 million tonnes of CO₂ per year per unit (or about 3 million tonnes of coal equivalent).
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2025
The goal of the vaccine is to keep people out of the hospital, keep them out of the intensive-care unit, keep them out of the morgue.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unit
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Two million dollars of the funds used to protect Okefenokee came from the Holdfast Collective, a group of nonprofit entities that since 2022 has donated the profits generated by Patagonia to nonprofit groups fighting climate change.—
David Gelles,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
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Overnight, customers discovered that their formerly frisky bots had turned frigid, some morphing into befuddled entities who seemed to be suffering from brain injuries.—
Patricia Marx,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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The local Rite Aid was getting ready to shut down, with barren shelves and 75% off all items, while commerce elsewhere in the town of less than 3,000 people wasn’t exactly bustling.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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The next day, Ranger Martin located their items under a log in tall ferns.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Unit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unit. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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