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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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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

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 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says there are myriad reasons people are either refused a credit card or, just as much a slap in the face with a wet fish, a low credit limit.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

The disaster sparked a wave of grief in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a region mired in conflict for more than three decades with myriad armed groups fighting over its territory.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

Or how about its relationship to the plastic flowers in Onofre Martinez’s garden that so confused his myriad hummingbirds?

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

“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

Great stretches of the long grass, once the teeming jungle of summer, were almost deserted, with only a hurrying beetle or a torpid spider left out of all the myriads of August.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams




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