thousand

Example Sentences

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He remains optimistic, however, saying that "the journey of a thousand miles begins with a step".

From BBC • Apr. 16, 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

I pound the water with my fists, lap after lap, one, three, ten, a thousand.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam