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Later that day, Chip Holmes, co-owner of Damariscotta River Cruises, told me that a dozen Damariscotta farms now produce 80% of Maine oysters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

His team also tracked adult cuttlefish numbers during the dive survey, and said the dozen or so they saw - when there should have been tens of thousands - appeared to be behaving differently.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Periodically, the soft-spoken and generous man flies his Cessna into town to scavenge soda pop for a dozen or so cherubic Mennonite children on a nearby homestead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

By the time the beavers were trapped and their dams dismantled, a few dozen acres of trees were dead and too dangerous to remove.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

We had been in this outer camp at Vught almost two weeks when Betsie and I, along with a dozen others, were called out by name during morning roll call.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The village of Dhunge, once home to roughly 150 families, now lies in ruins, reduced to a swampy expanse with an ominous rotting stench -- one of dozens of settlements obliterated by the Himalayan floods.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

The Teamsters, which represent 250,000 workers across dozens of industries in California, said they have concerns about how this will affect drivers’ work and safety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

For the past several weeks, dozens of women dressed in pink have come to the court in Plymouth to show their support for Clancy -- and to make a statement about women's health more generally.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Canada is hiring dozens of researchers away from US universities, including top research institutions such as Harvard as its relationship with its neighbour continues to sour.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Gautier could have written this about almost any painting—he was haunted by dozens.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day