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Foreign Secretary Amrit Bahadur Rai told reporters on Sunday the burials followed international protocols, adding that Nepal needed "more than a thousand" freezer units to store bodies.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Most people will never have a thousand – let alone millions – of followers.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
Several thousand Indians have been making their way to Mount Kailash for years.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
The overall difference this strategy made stands out quite starkly on Dog’s profile: Their most recent posts from the pre-Ryonex era, Aug. 6 and before, each got a few thousand likes.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
The war ended with an American victory in 1902 and an estimated death toll of more than four thousand Americans and sixteen thousand Filipino soldiers.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
The clash generates strong mechanical ground vibrations, or seismic waves, that propagate thousands of kilometres from the origin.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
"It is going to discover tens of thousands, maybe even 100,000 new exoplanets."
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Rodríguez underscored that it would bring more than $100 billion in investment, more than $209 billion in taxes, and thousands of jobs that would aid in rebuilding the country’s oil industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
If given the chance to gain thousands of admirers for your work, would you take it?
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
Two days after the tsunami, tens of thousands of people were still missing.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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