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thousand

[thou-zuhnd] / ˈθaʊ zənd /
ADJECTIVE
having 1000 of something
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NOUN
pertaining to 1000
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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

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

But others put their number at several thousand.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

Pixies shot out and pelted toward me like a thousand tiny arrows, pink and blue and red and orange sparks, their teeth bared for war.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from Bordeaux's surrounding region of Gironde, as France continues to fight against wildfires being stoked by an unprecedented "pyrocumulonimbus" or fire clouds.

From BBC 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

It also reveals that early humans in Britain were carefully selecting rare materials and using them to produce and maintain highly refined tools hundreds of thousands of years ago.

From Science Daily Jul. 27, 2026

Callais, dismantling the work that thousands of activists had spilled blood, sweat, and tears over.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

He thought of the thousands and thousands of tree-souls thronging the darkness: waiting for him, and him alone, to deliver them from the bear.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver




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