as in plentiful
being more than enough without being excessive
there will be food and drink aplenty, so please come
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Recent Examples of aplenty
Brian Truitt, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026
There are stars aplenty in the postseason.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2026
Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
While After the Hunt is full of scathing dialogue, snarky asides, and buzzwords aplenty, the final conversation between Alma and Maggie may be its most damning indictment of systems of power.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
There are metaphors aplenty to interpret in a thriller about a town that goes bonkers when 17 kids go missing in the middle of the night and everybody points to their teacher (Julia Garner).
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026
There are stars aplenty in the postseason.
—Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2026
Adverb
There’s a dead body or two, a frothy song and dance number and absurd plot twists aplenty.
—Randy Myers, Mercury News, 26 Nov. 2025
While After the Hunt is full of scathing dialogue, snarky asides, and buzzwords aplenty, the final conversation between Alma and Maggie may be its most damning indictment of systems of power.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aplenty
Adjective
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Go to the Beach While the arts are an important part of the fabric of New Smyrna Beach, its laidback beaches define daily life here, and the town has plentiful surf shops and casual restaurants to show for it.—
Skye Sherman,
Southern Living,
7 Feb. 2026
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Lithium, a soft metal necessary for the production of rechargeable batteries, is plentiful in the brine buried in the Smackover Formation, which stretches from east Texas through southern Arkansas and east to the Florida panhandle.—
DIDI TANG,
Arkansas Online,
5 Feb. 2026
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The island has become a haven for the rock iguanas, who eat plentifully from the local guava plants and are beginning to repopulate.—
Madeline Weinfield,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Feb. 2026
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Connor and Scheifele will score plentifully if anything good happens for the Jets at all this season.—
Murat Ates,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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So having another person in her space was always a little surprising, even if the curator, gazing at her with his usual mix of mild reproach and gauzy concern, seemed not abundantly different from the empty chair.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Still, over the course of season-ending press conferences the last two days, a combination of comments from Payton, Paton and players have made abundantly clear that Denver intends to take a hard look at its skill-position talent this offseason.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
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Both contain ample vitamin C, but Sumo Citrus edges out navel oranges due to its larger size.—
Morgan Pearson,
Verywell Health,
11 Feb. 2026
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Additionally, the home comes with two parking spots, providing ample room for multiple vehicles.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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The straps and upper material are stretchy and soft against the skin, while the supportive insoles will keep your feet amply supported.—
Olivia Dubyak,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Feb. 2026
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Ohtani is now Tucker’s teammate, as are amply paid stars Mookie Betts, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Will Smith, Tyler Glasnow, Freeman and Snell.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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The most generous interpretation of the New Atheist view on this question is that people ought to have the freedom to decide for themselves.—
Christopher Beha,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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There's little a generous spoonful of fresh field peas won't compliment.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
14 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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The more effective strategy is to initially define the right automation for your business, then select packaging engineered to run optimally on that system — taking into account current operational needs as well as future growth.—
Ken Bowles,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Whether those investments are optimally targeted is a legitimate debate.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Jan. 2026
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