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as in composition
a literary, musical, or artistic production
a doomsday novel that turns out to be one of those it-was-all-a-dream numbers
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as in cipher
a person of no importance or influence
doesn't want to go to some mammoth state university where she would be just a number
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as in feat
an act of notable skill, strength, or cleverness
a stunning gymnastics number that really impressed the judges
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as in calculation
numbers plural
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
if you believe the president's numbers, we can afford these new programs and still have tax cuts
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as in to aggregate
to have a total of
the full-time staff numbers 30 people
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as in to include
to have as part of a whole
is numbered among the great minds of our times
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Recent Examples of number
Steve Metsch, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2025
Mindy Kaling's Scooby Doo origin series, Velma, canceled at Max
Pepperdine's attorneys also noted that both Pepperdine and the fictional team emphasize the number 37 in their marketing.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2025
Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
The second-largest group, immigrants from India, numbered just 2.9 million, or 6% of all immigrants living in the U.S.
However, immigrants’ origins have been shifting away from Mexico.
—Jennifer Van Hook, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2025
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Golf courses saw a big increase in the number of players amid the COVID-19 pandemic because being outside was considered safer.
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There were only a couple groups with galleries that numbered more than a dozen people, and even those may have only been huddled together for warmth.
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The two digits in the circle's center are the las two numbers of the year it was made in.—
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This is simply the first six digits of your Citi credit or debit card.—
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After voters passed Prop 47 in 2014, reclassifying a number of drug and property offenses from felonies to misdemeanors, arrests for these types of offenses dropped notably and changed the composition of arrest offenses.—
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Music: Assistance with composition and sound creation.—
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The Anti-Defamation League, which tracks criminal and non-criminal acts of hate against Jews, counted 8,873 antisemitic incidents in 2023, a 140% increase from the prior year, and the highest number on record since the ADL began tracking such data in 1979.—
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The house is a replica of the one in Solingen, Germany where a notorious act of arson in 1993 committed by a group of young far-right extremists left five Turkish migrant women and girls of the Genç family dead.—
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Lively’s Lily Bloom is a cipher for the millennial woman resisting the pull of becoming her boomer mother.—
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For decades, Patricia McGlone was a cipher, a ghost.—
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Capturing back-to-back 500s was a rare feat previously accomplished by just three drivers, seven-time winner Richard Petty, four-time winner Cale Yarborough and Sterling Marlin.—
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Stefanov has been nominated for the American Society of Cinematographers Documentary Award, a rare feat for a first-timer.—
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The explicit goals of the long term financial plan are revenue sufficiency and rate calculation.—
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The law’s calculation and amount of credit was intended to be based on the volume of export.—
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So January's tragic midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which killed 67 people, only counts once.—
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Only the absolute luckiest can count on modern armored transportation.—
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First, Define ‘Important Data’ Many companies start from where their data sits today and build systems on top to aggregate it for employee access.—
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Even this summer, the Suns could trade only three players for Butler — Devin Booker, Bradley Beal or Kevin Durant — because teams over the second apron cannot aggregate salaries.—
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“Number.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/number. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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