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ten

[ten] / tɛn /
ADJECTIVE
having ten of something
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So AI-detection startup Originality.ai tested about 5,000 posts in ten categories and found that only climate change ranked lower than marketing/advertising/PR in terms of probable, more-than-moderate AI use.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Our apartment was about ten minutes from Lake Michigan; perhaps proximity alone would turn me into one of those women who began the day with a brisk swim.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

Half of the years between 2015 and 2024, saw temperatures above 35C - up from one in ten - as climate change increases the risk of heatwaves.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

"If you have ten steps in a row needed to build a finished product, and suddenly one quits, the next steps can't happen."

From Science Daily Aug. 3, 2026

We’d rarely needed to venture beyond the eight or ten square blocks of the district, where we had our own churches, schools, theaters, stores of all kinds.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Typhoon Dolphin triggered a top-level alert over the weekend, prompting over 1,000 flight cancellations and tens of thousands of evacuations.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

The festival brought eight days of music, thousands of people and tens of millions of pounds of investment to a city once plagued by fear and violence.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

SpaceX’s initial public offering in June, and mooted IPOs by OpenAI and Anthropic, could generate tens of billions more dollars for schools—assuming high-flyers don’t vamoose to avoid a hefty tax bill on their windfalls.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

While Premier League footballers can earn tens of thousands of pounds a week - sometimes hundreds of thousands - life in the lower leagues can be very different.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

He thought of the tens of thousands of Americans who’d lost their lives.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge




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