amounts

plural of amount
as in quantities
a given or particular mass or aggregate of matter is this small amount of food supposed to feed the whole hockey team?

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Recent Examples of amounts As an independent expenditure committee, Unidos Con Karen Bass is allowed to raise campaign donations in unlimited amounts. — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026 Tech companies are borrowing huge amounts of money from investors, in the form of bonds, crowding out demand for other debt, including Treasuries. — David Goldman, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026 Monday’s filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed that Anthropic, like other AI firms, is splashing out unprecedented amounts of cash on cloud services to run its AI models. — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 26 Oct. 2026 The molecules researchers want to detect are often present in tiny amounts, so their signals are faint. — Bilin Lin, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026 Micron is earning huge amounts of money, only be greeted with the sound of bears claiming peak, peak, peak. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2026 Finally, given the size of certain funds, there is simply no way to efficiently allocate capital in small amounts for an anchor asset. — Chris Russo, Sportico.com, 24 Oct. 2026 The impostor then instructed her to send larger amounts through different payment methods, including Venmo, PayPal, Cash App and cryptocurrency. — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026 Two Sacramento-area congressional candidates have poured record amounts of personal money to fund their campaigns. — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for amounts
quantities
Noun
  • The facts, however, are altogether against any such conclusion, for quite recently no less than 50 artificial butter factories were counted in this city, and large quantities of artificial butter are sold to the customer as genuine butter.
    — Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Estimators spend scarce hours manually measuring quantities that software could calculate while higher-value judgment calls wait behind them.
    — Shiva Dhawan, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026

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“Amounts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amounts. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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