numbers
Example Sentences
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Numbers and costs are set to rise rapidly, with spending on health and disability-related benefits forecast to increase from £65bn a year currently to £100bn by 2029.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
Numbers don’t lie, and U.S. companies are still throwing up good ones.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 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 have fallen as children have moved to different schools."
From BBC • Feb. 2, 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
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.