masses
Britishplural noun
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the body of common people
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informal (often foll by of) great numbers or quantities
masses of food
Example Sentences
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It said it would introduce new rules to tackle fraud and a lack of transparency in funeral pricing to "reduce the burden of funerals on the masses".
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
West didn’t just embody feminist fat acceptance; she made it cool and brought it to the masses.
From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026
Miriam spent more than eight years covering private equity and private markets for the Journal, following the industry as it evolved from targeting institutions and the super-wealthy to marketing its funds to the masses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
The resulting simulations replicate the masses, locations, and motions of the Milky Way and Andromeda, as well as the positions and velocities of 31 galaxies just outside the Local Group.
From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2026
Antipodes had become a reality, and there was no longer any way of fitting the Earth’s land masses into one hemisphere.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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