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After setting aside their first few thousand dollars for emergencies, experts suggest that people start to simultaneously save for retirement as they finish building up their emergency fund.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

"It's been incredibly frustrating because we know those thousand training places wouldn't only benefit doctors, they would benefit the public," Waterman said.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

He said it cost only a couple thousand dollars and there was just one employee overseeing the project.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

Along with a thousand or so other Catholics, Dowling had walked more than a mile from a nearby parish church to the Broadview facility.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

By February 1862, more than two thousand soldiers had been killed, and roughly a hundred thousand had been wounded in dozens of minor skirmishes and major battles.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock