quantity
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Domino’s already sells a small pizza, but the Domino boosts the quantity of toppings and comes with a savory Parmesan crust, Jordan said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
It offers what is there, in the quantity there is.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
As part of the occasion to honour their achievement, they both stepped on to weighing scales to establish the quantity of tomatoes they would each be given.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Sorbitol was consumed in the largest quantity of any individual sweetener, with an average daily intake of 64 mg/day.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
Among other things the law justifies is the experimenter’s belief that the average of a bunch of measurements of some quantity should approach the true value of the quantity as the number of measurements increases.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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Amazon is ordering large quantities of older books, scanning them to train AI models and “destroying them in the process.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Sector-wise, retail trade lost 19,000 jobs, with employment declining in warehouse retailers -- firms like Costco, Sam's Club and others that offer discounts for wholesale quantities of household goods -- and general merchandise stores.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
When those signs are absent, however, even enormous quantities of magma can remain undetected within Earth's crust.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
Today, street vendors line Broadway, setting up place mats and selling small quantities of fruits and vegetables.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
And, indeed, he had either bought books in vast quantities or had had access to a remarkable library, for On the Magnet begins with the first systematic literature review.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The Number System
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Expressions and Equations
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