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CNN, 13 Apr. 2024
The Pentagon has bolstered defenses for the tens of thousands of U.S. troops in the region in advance of the prospect of an imminent attack on Israel and Western interests.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
Now tens of thousands of animal rights advocates from all over the world, including an attorney for an animal wellness organization, are calling for the man to be charged criminally.
—Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 12 Apr. 2024
The rule aims to close a loophole that has allowed tens of thousands of guns to be sold every year by unlicensed dealers who do not perform background checks to ensure the potential buyer is not legally prohibited from having a firearm.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 12 Apr. 2024
Every month, Idealist and other coffee producers give the military tens of thousands of drip coffee bags — single-serve, pour-over sachets filled with ground coffee.
—Daria Mitiuk Brendan Hoffman, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
With projects calling for thousands of coral to be planted over the next year and tens of thousands of coral to be planted over the next decade, the losses add up when coral pieces can cost more than $100 each.
—David Fischer, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2024
Memory has always been important in AI, and as generative AI has taken hold and popular models reach the tens of billions of parameters in size it’s become even more critical.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2024
Healthcare experts estimate that in the 103 years insulin has been available to treat diabetes, the medication has saved tens of millions of lives.
—Eva Rothenberg, CNN, 1 Apr. 2024
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Word History
Middle English, going back to Old English tīen (West Saxon), tēn, going back to Germanic *tehun (whence also Old Frisian tiān, tiēn "ten," Old Saxon tehan, Old High German zehan, Old Norse tíu, Gothic taihun), going back to Indo-European *deḱm̥, whence also Old Irish deich "ten," Welsh deg, Latin decem, Old Church Slavic desętĭ, Lithuanian dẽšimt, Albanian dhjetë, Greek déka, Armenian tasn, Tocharian A śäk, Tocharian B śak, Avestan dasa, Sanskrit daśa
Note: The Slavic, Baltic, and perhaps Albanian forms are derived from the ordinal base *deḱm̥-t-.
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Ten.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ten. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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