quantity
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Social isolation is an objective measure of the quantity of social connection in behavior, while loneliness is a subjective measure of a person’s emotional dissatisfaction with the quality of their relationships.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Diesel is harder to refine than gasoline and so while UK refineries produce more than the quantity of petrol consumed domestically, they meet less than half of the demand for diesel.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
After three days of investigations, including using a bomb disposal team, police said Tuesday they had found no explosives in the vehicles, but they had retrieved a "quantity of petrol".
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Sleep quantity and quality is a priority of China’s National Health Commission and a focus in China more broadly.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
“The sanitary condition of the expedition was good, and the quantity of provisions still existing was sufficient to assure us the termination of the voyage without scarcity of food.”
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
Peatland fires are common in Kalimantan and can smoulder and spread under the soil for weeks or months, emitting huge quantities of smoke and sometimes causing surface blazes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Capt Traoré has previously accused smugglers of taking large quantities of gold out of Burkina Faso illegally and said some of the proceeds were helping finance militant groups.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
With their help, he mixed carefully measured quantities of lead nitrate into lampblack ink, creating inks with several different lead concentrations.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Training and running frontier-level AI models requires vast quantities of computing power, but so does deploying AI across an economy that scales to millions of people, he noted.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026
Plural words are often treated as singulars in quantities and measurements of things like these: • Money: Bernice says $4 is too much for a cup of coffee.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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The Number System
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40 SAT words Beginning with "Q"
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Expressions and Equations
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