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What specific number did myriad originally refer to in Greek?

myriad

[mir-ee-uhd] / ˈmɪr i əd /




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Dr Hall says there could be a myriad of reasons why your child hasn't been invited.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Year: 2019 Compiled by: Slate Staff, myriad tech experts Of note: Later expanded into a book, edited by former Future Tense editor Torie Bosch.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026

Today, the Art Gallery of Ontario believes it knows who its mystery girl is and who painted her—the art-historical equivalent of finding a needle in myriad haystacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

The last step was drizzling a tablespoon of good olive oil over the batter which was a trick I had learned in one of the myriad baking newsletters I now subscribed to.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Before them, the shadow reached out and ended in knife-edge abruptness into an all-but-unbearable blaze of white light, that glittered from myriad crystals along a rocky ground.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

“Beyond healthcare, this fusion of nanotechnology and cells can lead to unique living hybrid robots, opening up myriads of interesting applications.”

From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2023

Over the centuries, many observers hypothesized that the Milky Way’s soft luminescence was the collective glow from myriads of stars that were too faint and close together in the sky to be individually distinguished.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 4, 2023

Stacking one’s few belongings in a safe place, trying to understand what is yelled in German, Russian, Ukrainian, looking into myriads of unknown faces, worried faces, some smiling faces.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2022

"Above all I want to thank those myriads of unassuming folk who have shown what love in action can achieve."

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2021

Now she turned her head to see the myriads of Tralfamadorians outside the dome.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut


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