thousand

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One banker estimates that there are more than a thousand SPVs tied to SpaceX investments alone, each with around 100 investors of their own.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

But avoiding credit cards entirely in 2026 means leaving a thousand dollars or more in rewards on the table every year for a lot of people.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

That’s enough power to run several thousand American homes for a year.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Seventy four thousand years ago, Earth experienced one of the most powerful volcanic disasters in the past 2.5 million years.

From Science Daily • May 11, 2026

I’d never seen twenty-nine monkeys grow into a thousand so fast.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls