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The Orange County turtle nests are several hundred miles farther north than the turtles have ever been seen nesting before.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Our sense of self, he writes, arises “with the help of an estimated 86 billion neurons, or brain cells, making a hundred trillion different synaptic connections.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Hiring a lawyer to draft a will can cost a few hundred dollars, according to Northwestern Mutual, and a lawyer can prepare power-of-attorney and health-agent documents for a similar amount.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Successive column collapses generate pyroclastic density currents with the resulting deposits reaching several hundred meters in thickness, as they did in the last super-eruption.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
She counted at least a hundred in the herd.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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They switched departments to learn from surgeons who didn’t use robotic arms or spent hundreds of extra hours on simulations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
“In hilly terrain there are hundreds of low water crossings which are potentially dangerous in heavy rain,” the agency said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
The FTSE-100 firm will provide 18 engines for nine new Airbus A350-1000 aircraft in a deal worth "hundreds of millions of pounds".
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Event founder Beverley Finnegan said: "What started as a challenge between friends to grow the biggest mangelwurzel has, eight months later, become a festival with hundreds of locals involved."
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
They are complicated contraptions with hundreds of parts, every one of which feeds back through wires to the control room.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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