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According to the Bryn Walker web page, the brand operates six company-owned stores “and wholesales to around a thousand boutiques nationwide.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
In one experiment, they had two agents try and find each other and ran the experiment a thousand times to see what would happen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
More than five thousand panes of glass have been replaced, and the once corroding ironwork has been repaired and repainted.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
She had to take on a three-month unpaid internship in a classroom and several thousand dollars in fees for her certification.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
“I wish we could, but for the thousand reasons I’ve already told you a thousand times, we can’t.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
“I don’t try to think, ‘Oh, there’s many thousands of fans here,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
So began an audacious plan to build a neutrino observatory at the geographic South Pole, with thousands of light sensors embedded deep in the ice.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The aerospace and healthcare industries are among the region’s largest employers, with companies such as Boeing employing thousands of people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The "midterms," held halfway through a president's four-year term, decide control of Congress as well as governorships and thousands of state-level offices.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
The rushlight glimmered on the cave wall behind the stone -and lit the gleam of thousands of eyes.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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