volumes

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In the financial market, where various traders exchange contracts typically representing future deliveries of 1,000 barrels of crude apiece, daily volumes are many times greater.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

To be sure, the market action in perpetual futures is still tiny compared to daily trading volumes in the U.S. equity market.

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

"They are professional and they are making massive volumes of money," she adds.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

“If the people that sit inches from her are rejecting her candidacy, that should speak volumes to every other voter in the city.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Habit ruleth like a task-master returned from the grave; I could not leave the unneeded volumes in disorder.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson