abundance
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During a postwar cocoa shortage in the 1940s, an Italian pastry chef named Pietro Ferrero had the genius idea to combine the scarce resource with an ingredient his town had in abundance: hazelnuts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
"Joy, abundance of spirit, infectious laughter. A titan of a ginger haired man."
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
The original appeal of Cajun chicken pasta is abundance — meat, cream, spice, all competing for dominance.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026
Despite the abundance of Cambrian fossils, no clear example of a chelicera from that period had been identified before.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
This happened around 600 million years ago, at the beginning of the Paleozoic era, and accounts for the sudden abundance of marine fossils of all kinds in the record of this period.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing abundance
A Long Walk to Water
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30 GRE Words Beginning with "A"
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Lyndon B. Johnson on "The Great Society" (1964)
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