thousand

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Already this year Amazon, Meta, Block, Pinterest and Atlassian, among others, have collectively laid off several thousand workers.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

It also recently received permission to put another few thousand satellites into orbit by 2035.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

“It’s been a death by a thousand cuts, and this is the last big chomp,” she said.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

Based on its own testing, Anthropic predicts it could find “over a thousand more critical severity vulnerabilities and thousands more high severity vulnerabilities.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

There are a thousand more important things going on.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller