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A hundred thousand is a pretty middle class salary, she said, so perhaps the threshold should be a little higher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
“When I was little, I wanted to be an actor, but I also wanted to be a thousand other things,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
Williams told the public inquiry: "A picture paints a thousand words - photos are ideal evidence."
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Eddy says the current cost-of-living crunch feels like “death by a thousand cuts” to consumers.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
But Phineas and his assistant have done this a thousand times—pour the powder, set the fuse, pour the sand, tamp the sand plug, shout a warning, light the fuse, and run like mad.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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It has since grown to thousands of attendees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Abdel, who hopes to study business management, is among hundreds of thousands of pupils who have taken to the streets across France since late September over learning conditions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Coca-Cola and the Colonel: KFC struck a deal to make Coca-Cola its beverage provider at thousands of U.S. restaurants, a blow to longtime supplier and onetime parent company PepsiCo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
The second can happen much later, hundreds or even thousands of days after the star is initially destroyed.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
The landslide had come crashing away from the mountain, the lateral blast had exploded out the side, and a dark column was spewing tens of thousands of feet into the air.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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