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You can argue about multiplicities of meanings, but the ear won’t have it both ways.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2023

Andrade’s fascination with the multiplicities of Brazilian culture placed him at the center of the modernist movements that were sweeping the country in the 1920s.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2023

TRY IT #2 Use the graph of the function of degree 9 in Figure 10 to identify the zeros of the function and their multiplicities.

From Textbooks • Feb. 13, 2015

For zeros with odd multiplicities, the graphs cross or intersect the x-axis.

From Textbooks • Feb. 13, 2015

There seems to be no stopping this dissociation of matter into multiplicities short of finding each ultimate entity occupying one individual point.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North