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The surgery she carries out removes up to 90% of the stomach - meaning people are unable to eat large quantities of food.

From BBC Jul. 25, 2026

The technology underlying chatbots such as Claude and ChatGPT uses patterns in data by analyzing vast quantities of digital text and video from the internet.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

For instance, the plane doesn’t have enough refrigerators to store large quantities of food, meaning the president’s meals would need to be transported on different aircraft on long trips.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Instead, enormous quantities of fine debris blasted into the atmosphere may have played the dominant role.

From Science Daily Jul. 19, 2026

After the work, there were great quantities of food—chicken, pork, vegetables, corn bread, fruit—better food than the herring and corn meal field hands usually saw so much of.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler