dozen
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Nearly half a dozen players only returned from their post-World Cup breaks 10 days before the opening game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
More than a dozen people were already set up in front of her.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
In 2015, New York created the “BitLicense,” a licensing regime so burdensome that more than a dozen crypto companies, including Kraken, Bitfinex and ShapeShift, pulled their operations out of New York rather than comply.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
The organization has screened his films regularly for decades and Brooks has appeared at its theaters a dozen or so times to discuss his work and collaborators.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
“They are landscapes,” she said after examining a dozen.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Astronomers have identified dozens of streams produced by globular clusters inside the Milky Way.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
They heard sirens, then dozens of police cars arriving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
They ordered dozens, even hundreds of books at a time, on completely unrelated subjects, and routed them through logistics warehouses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Last year, dozens of journalists surrendered Pentagon credentials rather than agree to new restrictions on their reporting.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
Something clearly had to be done, and eventually, in the largest search and rescue undertaken in history, dozens of expeditions were sent out in search of the missing explorer and his crew.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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