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

The Oscar winner will play Helen, whose beauty famously "launched a thousand ships" and resulted in the Trojan war, according to Homer's ancient Greek legend.

From BBC • May 22, 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

But the March 23 episode caught investors’ attention because early-morning activity exploded from hundreds of futures traded a minute to several thousand before Trump’s post.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

Rowdy and I had jumped that old rail fence a thousand times, but that day the fence looked like it was twenty feet high.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls