quantity
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Burnham is mostly an unknown quantity in India.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
The meeting decided on measures such as "bolstering up the nuclear force both in quality and quantity", the report said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
"It points to the idea that amino acid composition, not just overall protein quantity, may be the target of strategic metabolic interventions."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
The government effectively argued that Carpenter turned on quantity.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
Cook fruit juice till it turns scarlet and about half the quantity evapourates.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
These automated strategies routinely buy and sell large quantities of stocks over the course of the year to hew to an index, and any influx of cash into the account will very quickly be redeployed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The department also brought in helicopters capable of carrying largers quantities of water to the fire site.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026
AI data centers also need large quantities of more traditional memory chips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Large quantities of gas and dust are packed into a region only about 1,500 light-years across.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
Sometimes correlated quantities are causally related, but other “confounding” factors complicate and obscure the causal relations.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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The Number System
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Expressions and Equations
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