fives

noun

Definition of fivesnext
plural of five
as in tens

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  1. hundreds
  2. dollars
  3. hundred
Noun
  • More than 4,000 cybersecurity tools flood the market—the typical large company uses hundreds of them, pumping out data to rows of dashboards flashing alerts.
    Saket Modi, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The need for power and water grew more urgent Thursday for hundreds of thousands of residents across the Southeast a week after Helene began a deadly, devastating march as a historic Category 4 hurricane slamming onto Florida's Gulf Coast.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of hundreds
Noun
  • Some own multiple, while others focus on one extravagant build, which can cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
    Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Biden is expected to tout the billions of dollars the administration has directed to replacing lead pipes through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, a White House official said.
    Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of dollars
Noun
  • At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson and Remington, handed over hundreds of thousands of names, addresses and other private data — without customer knowledge or consent — to the NSSF, which then entered the details into what would become a massive database.
    Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Outside the hearing room, a line of hundreds waiting to get in snaked through the Rayburn House Office Building hallway.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
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