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multitude | American Dictionary

multitude
noun
us/ˈmʌl·tɪˌtud/
a large number of things:
[ U ]Two large circles are surrounded by a multitude of small, colorful squares.
[ pl ]As manager of the restaurant, his job is to feed the multitudes (= large numbers of people).

Examples of multitude

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One would imagine them to be havens for the multitudes of unemployed and underemployed youths, many of them rural migrants.
In the beginning they listen to and follow the multitudes; later they guide them ; later still they represent them, and eventually they supplant them.
The multitudes of possible meanings, significations, representations, and practices are then stabilized or fixed by pressures within and outside the research system.
A woman leaves home often explicitly having broken communal and kinship ties and ends up ministering to multitudes, very often in a foreign land.
How do these multitudes of cells become organized into the structures of, for example, our body- nose, eyes, limbs, and brain?
Is this basic mathematical theory, developed over millennia by multitudes of history's finest mathematicians, thereby inadequate ?
Such reunions are well-documented in a multitude of animals, including nonprimates, such as hyenas and dolphins.
He did not trust the multitude of copies in circulation.
Every environment is an economy of such coexistence, a multitude of interrelationships and separations, of symbiosis and selfishness.
Curtains around a bed can also hide a multitude of sins in patient care.
We may, however, expect that a diverse multitude of actors (as pilgrims) would have been present around that day, perhaps even the king.
What is interesting to the architects is the capacity of a material to yield a multitude of phenomena or readings.
In constructing their argument the authors combine a number of analytical domains and touch upon a multitude of issues, all of which merit extensive discussion.
Given the multitude of statistical tests per formed, findings that form meaningful patterns will be emphasized.
The working classes, the unemployed, and multitudes of their children, in this, the richest country in the world, are crying for bread.
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