quantity
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Although the amount released by one person may seem small, the combined output of billions of people adds up to an enormous quantity.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
Each transaction begins with a quantity that should be checkable and checked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Once everything has developed some color, stir in a brown or mushroom gravy packet, a splash of stock and a generous quantity of frozen mixed vegetables.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
“We’ve oriented the market to expect something great and new to watch every week, so we have to deliver on quality and quantity always,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
It was relatively small, weighing perhaps six hundred or seven hundred pounds, but it nevertheless amounted to a huge quantity of meat.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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China hasn’t imported the chip in large quantities while it attempts to boost its domestic semiconductor industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
While solar and wind power are being produced in growing quantities, ageing grids and a lack of storage sometimes mean those sources cannot be used as efficiently as they could be.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
Limited quantities of gas continued to flow through it until it was shut down in January 2025, well into the full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Unlike conventional technologies, which require increasing amounts of space and energy to handle growing quantities of data, skyrmions could offer a much more efficient alternative.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
In other experiments, when small quantities of liquid water were present, the microbes actually grew.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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