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And then when you put your eye on it, you can transform it, even though you’ve passed the same block a thousand times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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
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
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
The country is comprised of more than seven thousand islands, most of which are smaller than one square mile.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated across France and Spain as the countries have been affected by large wildfires.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
He added that it promises to “create thousands of jobs, lower electricity costs for American families, and deliver energy infrastructure needed to power the AI economy.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Target is already organically mentioned tens of thousands of times a day on social media, according to the retailer’s chief digital and revenue officer, Sarah Travis, who leads the Club Target program.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Tens of thousands of protesters, mainly students, rallied last week in New Delhi and other cities, demanding Pradhan's resignation and broader reforms of the examination system.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
I thought a second and said, “Oh, I know now. That’s the place you were telling me about where they have all of those books; thousands and thousands of books.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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