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Numbers like that are exactly why media companies are going all in on sports.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
Numbers on influencers are spotty, but a 2023 study suggested there were about 11.6 million of them working full time in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
"Numbers are the foundation of war. Everything starts there. Anyone who ignores this cannot play this game. They will be followers rather than leaders," Brovdi told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
Numbers released by Goa's tourism department underscore these trends.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
When Henige wrote Numbers from Nowhere, the fight about pre- Columbian population had already consumed forests’ worth of trees—his bibliography is ninety pages long.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
A three-year-project to help boost sand dune-living rare beetle and toad numbers is to start later this year.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
But there’s a problem with the underlying numbers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
“He’s done so many intangible things that I think get lost in the shuffle of numbers and metrics,” Prior said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
For decades, quantum mechanics has relied on complex numbers, which combine a real component with an imaginary component.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
She smiled then, for she remembered how bravely Timothy had helped them escape from those awful pirate thespians in London, with their sharp-edged swords and loud, intricately rhymed choral numbers.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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