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French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said that "several thousand radical activists gathered at the rear of the march, including around 500 individuals identified as rioters", the AFP news agency reported.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
Ticket prices range from 20 to 90 yuan, bringing the number sold to a few thousand at most.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
"A researcher might be able to examine a few thousand Reddit posts by hand, but looking at nearly 150,000 would be an enormous undertaking," says Sehgal.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
The entirely hand-crafted stop-motion film runs just over 2 hours and more than a thousand people worked on it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
The country’s roughly two thousand papers began calling the journey “Dr. Kane’s Arctic Expedition.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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These measurements help scientists better understand changes in the length of Earth's day over thousands of years.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
Audi sells thousands of luxury cars in the U.S. without building a single one here, but that is about to change, the WSJ’s Detroit bureau chief Patrick George reports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
A clean-up operation is under way in parts of the UK after Storm Boelo caused caused flooding and property damage, leaving thousands without power.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
"When we combine their careful records with modern computational methods and historical evidence, we can potentially find new information about our planet and our star from thousands of years ago."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
Griffins had always been delicate; they’d always been rare, for thousands of years.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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