as in countless
too many to be counted
the numberless stars in the universe
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Recent Examples of numberless
This culminated in the 1956 inception of the notorious COINTELPRO and its numberless black-bag operations.
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Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
There are also numberless earths circling around their suns, no worse and no less than this globe of ours.
—Charles Cockell, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
There are hundreds of channels available via cable as well as numberless sources of entertainment content, information, misinformation and disinformation streamed at users unrelentingly, night and day, via social media.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021
That small space contains numberless genetic possibilities.
—Richard Preston, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2019
To read her is like viewing the AIDS quilt, which overwhelms the viewer with the care taken in each of its numberless panels.
—John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 July 2018
At the Beekman Hotel in downtown Manhattan last month, Ms. Shields, the model, actress and veteran of numberless interviews, was delivering but the latest in a series of canny performances.
—Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
Like numberless others, Pitner makes the mistake of seeing only one side of the union equation — the side of those who are employed.
—Will Swaim, National Review, 16 Feb. 2018
The tents disappear so quickly that some Whataburger restaurants are left temporarily numberless and others appear to have taken the most popular numbers out of rotation, some customers report.
—Erin Ailworth, WSJ, 14 July 2017
Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2022
There are also numberless earths circling around their suns, no worse and no less than this globe of ours.
—Charles Cockell, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2022
There are hundreds of channels available via cable as well as numberless sources of entertainment content, information, misinformation and disinformation streamed at users unrelentingly, night and day, via social media.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2021
That small space contains numberless genetic possibilities.
—Richard Preston, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2019
To read her is like viewing the AIDS quilt, which overwhelms the viewer with the care taken in each of its numberless panels.
—John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 July 2018
At the Beekman Hotel in downtown Manhattan last month, Ms. Shields, the model, actress and veteran of numberless interviews, was delivering but the latest in a series of canny performances.
—Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
Like numberless others, Pitner makes the mistake of seeing only one side of the union equation — the side of those who are employed.
—Will Swaim, National Review, 16 Feb. 2018
The tents disappear so quickly that some Whataburger restaurants are left temporarily numberless and others appear to have taken the most popular numbers out of rotation, some customers report.
—Erin Ailworth, WSJ, 14 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for numberless
countless
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Over the years, countless quarterbacks have reached the NFL and had an immediate impact as a rookie.—
Kevin McCormick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 June 2025
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In the month following his death, countless Hollywood figures paid tribute to the star, as well as his family who took out a full-page ad in an issue of The Hollywood Reporter to show their gratitude to those who mourned alongside them.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
14 June 2025
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“Numberless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numberless. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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