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She started mass-applying almost immediately to several hundred new positions, but her efforts yielded little results.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

After extensive preparation, only a few hundred milligrams of dust remained.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

And in April, a mass Apollo Go robotaxi outage in the Chinese city of Wuhan caused at least a hundred self-driving cars to stop mid-traffic.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

“Six hundred became 1,600, became 2,000; now we’ve got 3,500 trucks running from the Gulf to the Red Sea,” said Wilt, a former executive at aluminum producer Alcoa.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

Two hundred straw hats bobbed against the punishing sun, and not a bonnet among us.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck