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In one experiment, they had two agents try and find each other and ran the experiment a thousand times to see what would happen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
She had to take on a three-month unpaid internship in a classroom and several thousand dollars in fees for her certification.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
Two thousand patients is almost twice the capacity of Scotland's biggest hospital - so those beds could be used much more effectively.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
In a statement, Roy said she was proud of her “three hundred thousand dollar cash on hand advantage.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Her fur jacket is made of hairs so fine that three hundred thousand are packed into one square inch so that she's always warm and waterproof.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
But what is it about the country that persuades these couples to travel hundreds and sometimes thousands of miles to get married here?
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Even a small annual fee can add up to thousands of dollars over a long retirement.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
On the campaign trail, Katie Wilson pitched an ambitious agenda: lower costs, tax the wealthy and build thousands of shelter units for the homeless.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
"We're measuring the interaction of thousands or millions of electrons, and they are all moving together in a coherent way. That's a quantum many-body phenomenon, and it's actually a very weird thing."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
I followed my escort into the single large room where several hundred men and women sat at long plank tables covered with thousands of tiny radio parts.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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