numerosity
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First, numerosity: More than 150,000 infants could be affected by this order every year.
From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2025
In most class-action lawsuits, the numerosity requirement is presumed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2022
She says that this suggests numerosity is not evolutionarily selected for in and of itself, but rather “emerged spontaneously, as a by-product of learning to recognize objects.”
From Scientific American ● May 8, 2019
Most defendants settled with the Principals, resulting in proceeds of millions of dollars due to the numerosity of defendants.
From The Guardian ● May 7, 2013
You feel yourself at times in danger of thinking meanly of the human personality; numerosity, as it were, swallows up quality, and such perpetual familiarity contains the germs of contempt.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
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