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numbers

adjective as in financial

noun as in mathematics

noun as in numbers pool

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Example Sentences

Bruce Nash, who runs the box office analysis firm the Numbers, said the “F9” ticket sales were about 65 percent of the total expected audience, according to his site’s models.

In an attempt to find meaningful comparisons, Bruce Nash, who runs the box office analysis site the Numbers, built a model to determine moviegoing’s current strength.

Those are troubling numbers, for unfettered speech is not incidental to a flourishing society.

And too much of a focus on numbers can obscure strategic truths.

Within minutes, it seems, of the disclosures of these tragic events, large numbers of people chose a side and stuck to it.

The numbers reinforce another article in the Post, in which cops confessed to “turning a blind eye” to minor crimes.

That could include private financial or personal information—like the credit-card numbers you used to pay for the corrupted Wi-Fi.

Bacteria, when present in great numbers, give a uniform cloud which cannot be removed by ordinary filtration.

As company after company appeared, we were able to form a pretty exact estimate of their numbers.

The Mexicans, far superior in numbers, received every moment accessions to their strength.

Numbers have dribbled back from firing line and cannot be collected in this difficult country.

Caseous particles containing immense numbers of the bacilli are common.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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