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multiplicity

[muhl-tuh-plis-i-tee] / ˌmʌl təˈplɪs ɪ ti /




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That’s no small attraction, though, for the multiplicity of hues—cerulean, lilac, coral, seafoam, sienna—are hypnotically rendered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

Given this multiplicity of supportive factors for the market, rWilson observes investors are looking at the current recovery and asking themselves if the market will give them another opportunity to add risk.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026

Nowadays, with the film business contracting around blockbusters, the little pictures, the B pictures and the silly pictures have deserted the theaters for television which, in its streaming multiplicity, has room to absorb them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025

It responded that there are a multiplicity of separatist fighters now operating in the anglophone region.

From BBC ● May 25, 2025

“I prefer to be called William Spiver. It distinguishes me from the multiplicity of Williams in the world.”

From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo

You can argue about multiplicities of meanings, but the ear won’t have it both ways.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

Andrade’s fascination with the multiplicities of Brazilian culture placed him at the center of the modernist movements that were sweeping the country in the 1920s.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

TRY IT #2 Use the graph of the function of degree 7 in Figure 10 to identify the zeros of the function and their multiplicities.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 1, 2021

We know that the multiplicity is likely 3 and that the sum of the multiplicities is likely 6.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 1, 2021

The very character of multifarious multiplicities of the nursing world undoubtedly has called for nurses to develop their human capacity for duality in their mode of being.

From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson




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