number
noun
a numeral or group of numerals.
will number
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future tenseof number.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The family will number three for the foreseeable future.
From BBC ● May 3, 2025
By the end of the year, they will number nearly 2 billion — the largest generation ever, according to McCrindle Research, which is credited with coining the term.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2024
Millennials, a boomer-size generation, are expected to peak at more than 75 million in 2033, by which time boomers will number fewer than 65 million.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2022
Twenty years later, some of those same Taliban officials were among the delegation that struck a deal for the United States to leave Afghanistan, and they will number among the country’s new rulers.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2021
A year from now they will number more than 9,000—men and women, aged 18 to 79, willing to give 2 years of their lives to helping people in other lands.
From State of the Union Address by John F. (John Fitzgerald) Kennedy
