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According to Fuller's calculations, a star approaching the white dwarf stage may experience roughly 10,000 small kicks over several hundred thousand years.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
But gas sales averaged negative $2.15 per thousand cubic feet, which is roughly equivalent to a million British thermal units.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
More than a thousand tickets remain available on the Fifa resale site, several around face value plus the Fifa fee.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Turns out some pictures are worth more than a thousand words.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The Philippines is an archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean consisting of more than seven thousand islands, many of them uninhabited.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
For years, marketers sought out social-media charismatics who boasted hundreds of thousands or even millions of followers, and worked with them directly to develop perfectly polished content to promote their brands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Callais, dismantling the work that thousands of activists had spilled blood, sweat, and tears over.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
The wildfires in central Spain have ravaged tens of thousands of hectares of land.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
He once did a spell as a radio DJ playing jazz and his house contained his collection of thousands of CDs.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
This march is in Washington, DC, and has ballooned to hundreds of thousands.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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