magnitude
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“He immediately understood the magnitude of the World Cup and instructed his administration to help. We’re talking about the most powerful country in the world, and there are things that must be taken into account.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
The trench, which is a source of huge quakes, generated a magnitude 7.9 earthquake in 1976, triggering a tsunami that killed about 5,000 people.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
That makes them about seven orders of magnitude, or 10 million times, more energetic than particles accelerated inside the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
He stressed that the cycle often makes mistakes and it speaks to the timing and direction of turns rather than their magnitude.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
And how can you measure something if you don’t know to whom it happened, or with what frequency, or in what magnitude?
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
Vocabulary lists containing magnitude
Tier 2 Words for the SBAC ELA Items
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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The Number System
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