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quantity

[kwon-ti-tee] / ˈkwɒn tɪ ti /


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An unknown quantity in Europe, having only managed in qualifiers, he will also have to navigate two ties to reach the Europa League proper, where Rangers have excelled in recent years.

From BBC Jul. 28, 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

Experts said that while an AI system could conceivably offer some advantages over humans, its accuracy would ultimately depend on the quality and quantity of signatures available for comparison.

From Salon Jul. 17, 2026

Star chefs and bakers like Martha Stewart, Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Apollonia Poilâne are fans of his company’s spices and blends, which range from $9 to $36, depending on the product and quantity.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 16, 2026

To detect the predicted solar neutrino flux, you need an immense amount of chlorine, so American physicists have poured a huge quantity of cleaning fluid into the Homestake Mine in Lead, South Dakota.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

"We must understand how such large quantities of magma can accumulate to understand how giant caldera eruptions occur," says Kobe University geophysicist Nobukazu Seama.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

Enormous quantities of them, year after year, without complaint and, critically, without much regard for the yield.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

The surgery she carries out removes up to 90% of the stomach - meaning people are unable to eat large quantities of food.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

The technology underlying chatbots such as Claude and ChatGPT uses patterns in data by analyzing vast quantities of digital text and video from the internet.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Quite often, two quantities are correlated without either one being the cause of the other.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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