large numbers
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“The shortfall would become especially problematic if a conflict arose with an opponent whose arsenal included large numbers of ballistic and cruise missiles,” according to the report, adding China maintains such an arsenal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Jews came to America in large numbers in the last decades of the 19th and early 20th centuries, fleeing czarist restrictions on their freedom and a 25-year conscription in the Russian army.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The powerful gluon fields inside atomic nuclei are central to the structure of nearly all visible matter, but physicists still do not fully understand how large numbers of gluons behave together.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Security was tight for the visit, with Berlin cordoning off flag-lined streets and deploying large numbers of police.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The electromagnetic attraction is pictured as being caused by the exchange of large numbers of virtual massless particles of spin 1, called photons.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
