thousand

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“My first order of operations is get your thousand dollars,” said Ben Smith, a financial adviser in Milwaukee.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

But, he added, the department is “a thousand police officers short of what we need to handle the call volume we have.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

Breathitt County School District's case was chosen as a test case for more than a thousand US school districts which have pursued claims against social media companies.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

In visible and near infrared light, that wavelength can be up to a thousand times larger than the de Broglie wavelength used in electronic circuits.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

He reared his head back, stuck his tongue out at me about a thousand times, then slithered on through the brush and disappeared.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls