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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: 2018 Compiled by: Noel Murray Of note: Accompanied by “The 10 Worst Family Games,” as well as myriad individual tributes to the games named on both lists.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026

With that, “Chronovisor” and its obsessed protagonist enter a trancelike, analog-heavy state in which obscure texts in myriad languages tease a concealed parascientific history of potentially great importance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 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 myriad factors affecting innovativeness make the historian’s task paradoxically easier, by converting societal variation in innovativeness into essentially a random variable.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

“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

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

Indeed, one way to approach quantum gravity is to aim to derive the Einstein equations, which are the laws general relativity applies to spacetime, from the laws of thermodynamics, applied to myriads of elementary events.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 4, 2019

On top of the cliff, where the short turf was, there were myriads of puffins busy with their burrows.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White


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