thousand

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But, he added, the department is “a thousand police officers short of what we need to handle the call volume we have.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

Breathitt County School District's case was chosen as a test case for more than a thousand US school districts which have pursued claims against social media companies.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

In visible and near infrared light, that wavelength can be up to a thousand times larger than the de Broglie wavelength used in electronic circuits.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

Hundreds of millions of dollars more has been committed to building or rehabilitating several thousand affordable-housing units that supporters say might not otherwise go forward.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

Well, Oliver had always been in person, and in person was a thousand times more intimidating.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows