numbers

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Numbers were once even greater - after a devastating famine in the mid-1990s triggered what rights groups described as a silent exodus over a more porous border with China.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Numbers like that were usually only seen in peak season such as during the August summer holidays, Yorke said.

From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026

At Strength in Numbers, data journalist G. Elliott Morris explained that “they were unhappy with Biden, unhappy with prices, and voted accordingly.”

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2026

Numbers are shortened to just the first number in the trick - so 'frontside 360' is shortened to 'front 3' in the trick name.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

When Henige wrote Numbers from Nowhere, the fight about pre- Columbian population had already consumed forests’ worth of trees—his bibliography is ninety pages long.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann