Example Sentences

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Because there are only finitely many narcissistic numbers, they hold significantly fewer open questions than the happy numbers.

From Scientific American • Oct. 24, 2023

It is perfectly pastel white with a finitely manicured lawn.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2023

We finitely designed movie two and three meaning every single set, every object, every prop, every setting, every creature, every blade of grass.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2018

There were only two smooth subsurfaces in this example, but this technique extends to finitely many smooth subsurfaces.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

For in the first place, Matter, in any other than the phenomenal sense of the term, may not exist: and it will scarcely be said that a nonentity must be either infinitely or finitely divisible.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by Mill, John Stuart