ream
noun
a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets printer's ream, or perfect ream.
reams
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pluralof ream.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof ream (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
reamnouna standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets printer's ream, or perfect ream.
Example Sentences
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Moreton devises trades by feeding reams of weather data and historical prices into machine-learning models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The agents also hallucinated reams of incoherent commands and text and were sloppy and did not cover their tracks well.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
To decide what to fund, staffers with deep expertise typically pored over reams of information on abuses under the most repressive regimes and held an open competition to fund groups to work in those countries.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Ali and his team have been analyzing the behavior of individual investors by collecting and processing reams of trading data, he told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
He let his fingers drift across the reams and let his mind drift to the rustly sounds of paper wings flying across the face of the mountain and disappearing from sight.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
