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ten

[ten] / tɛn /
ADJECTIVE
having ten of something
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"There are about four in ten people aged 14-16 who aren't getting any work experience at all," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

“Each new V3 satellite has ten times the capacity of an existing V2 mini satellite,” Bernstein analysts led by Douglas Harned said in a client note on Monday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Nikole Hannah-Jones’s essay revisits her decision to send her daughter to mostly low-income and Black public schools, ten years later.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2026

They eventually narrowed the sample to ten high-quality events for which they could reliably determine both the black hole's feeding rate and the timing of its radio outflows.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

I pound the water with my fists, lap after lap, one, three, ten, a thousand.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Vortices can travel at speeds of tens of kilometers per second, but over the span of a picosecond they move only tens of nanometers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Last year, federal prosecutors similarly charged two Chinese nationals living in Southern California with illegally exporting tens of millions of dollars’ worth of artificial intelligence microchips to China.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

All three events occurred within a span of only a few tens of thousands of years about 66 million years ago.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

“Job well done to the tens of thousands of American service members, diplomats, and civilian personnel who answered the call in Iraq,” said Adm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Routed from their positions in total disarray, tens of thousands of South Vietnamese soldiers deserted.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge




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