mass in
Britishverb
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More than a million people lined the streets of Madrid on Sunday as Pope Leo XIV held an open-air mass in the Spanish capital, the Vatican said.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
The situation came to a critical mass in 2024 when Musk sued OpenAI for diverging from its nonprofit mission.
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2026
The researchers suggested that including modest amounts of animal-source foods may help prevent undernutrition and loss of lean muscle mass in very old age, compared with strictly plant-based diets.
From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2026
Using ordinary chemical rockets, you would need an amount of propellant vastly greater than all the mass in the visible universe.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
The clothes were a damp mass in the washer, but it was easy to feel out the silk pieces—Bitter’s pajamas, a flowered robe, a charcoal slip dress.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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