scores
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- noun
- /skɔrz/
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multitud
- The volunteers distributed food to scores of hungry families in the community.
And he found scores of dead albatross on the beach.
- And he found scores of dead albatross on the beach.
- OK, but police do off duty work for scores of organizations.
- But when I got Epstein's black book, there was scores of victims.
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It feels like scores are more important than learning.
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But what we'll discover is that the scores are not independent of one another.
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OK, the final scores are in and by two points.
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OK, but police do off duty work for scores of organizations.
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The Wall of Fear has fallen, but scores of other walls remain.
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The whole charter movement has seen scores rise.
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And he found scores of dead albatross on the beach.
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And we've spread our social and emotional needs over scores, if not hundreds of folks.
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But we now have scores of trials showing that doesn't work.
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Among the rest of the majors, there were no statistical differences in Ethics Scores (ES).
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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5.7
A large number of things or people
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5.9
A large number of things or people
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1.0
A large number or amount of something
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2.1
A very large amount of something, often many people or things
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6.7
A very large amount of something, for example many things or people
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A large number, usually more than twelve
A large number of people or things
A large amount of things, for example work, friends, or food
A very large number of people or things
A large amount of things, like books or food
A large amount of things like clothes or money
A very large amount of something, often said in a friendly or joking way
A large amount of things collected together, often in a stack
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Etymology
The word scores comes from the old word score, which once meant 'twenty' because people counted by making a 'score' (a mark or cut) for each group of twenty. So scores came to mean many groups of twenty and now simply means 'large numbers'.