as in quantities
a given or particular mass or aggregate of matter
is this small amount of food supposed to feed the whole hockey team?
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Recent Examples of amounts
When subjected to stress, the sponge-like matrix allows the material to deform predictably and absorb vast amounts of kinetic energy rather than snap.
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
Those amounts translate to roughly a half-cup to one cup of cooked beans, peas, or lentils.
—Stephanie Anderson Witmer, Health, 19 May 2026
Confirm your benefit amounts, confirm your contact information on file, and make sure no changes have been made without your knowledge.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026
Details of the trial The jury saw copious amounts of evidence, including surveillance video of Caneiro's car leaving his home and returning on the morning of the murders.
—Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 19 May 2026
The lawsuit also claimed other drivers could see tip amounts for orders, disincentivizing them from claiming certain orders.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 19 May 2026
OpenAI trains and runs AI models that require enormous amounts of computational resources, including chips, processing power, memory and energy, and CEO Sam Altman has pointed to compute power being a major bottleneck to AI growth.
—Ian Thomas, CNBC, 19 May 2026
All eligible applications are thoroughly evaluated, ranked, and the available budget for that call is then allocated in descending order of this ranking, respecting the support amounts requested by each project, until the budget is fully committed.
—Kevin Giraud, Variety, 19 May 2026
The idea works because copper releases small amounts of ions into the water.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 12 May 2026
Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
Those amounts translate to roughly a half-cup to one cup of cooked beans, peas, or lentils.
—Stephanie Anderson Witmer, Health, 19 May 2026
Confirm your benefit amounts, confirm your contact information on file, and make sure no changes have been made without your knowledge.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026
Details of the trial The jury saw copious amounts of evidence, including surveillance video of Caneiro's car leaving his home and returning on the morning of the murders.
—Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 19 May 2026
The lawsuit also claimed other drivers could see tip amounts for orders, disincentivizing them from claiming certain orders.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 19 May 2026
OpenAI trains and runs AI models that require enormous amounts of computational resources, including chips, processing power, memory and energy, and CEO Sam Altman has pointed to compute power being a major bottleneck to AI growth.
—Ian Thomas, CNBC, 19 May 2026
All eligible applications are thoroughly evaluated, ranked, and the available budget for that call is then allocated in descending order of this ranking, respecting the support amounts requested by each project, until the budget is fully committed.
—Kevin Giraud, Variety, 19 May 2026
The idea works because copper releases small amounts of ions into the water.
—Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 12 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for amounts
quantities
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In the Standard Model of particle physics, described by a quantum field theory, direct calculations yield infinite results for energies and other physical quantities, which must be eliminated by a sophisticated and nonintuitive mathematical procedure.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
18 May 2026
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Even items like sugar, coffee and tobacco that the island once produced in large quantities are now being imported.—
Gonzalo Zegarra,
CNN Money,
18 May 2026
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“Amounts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amounts. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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