so many
adjective
1
: constituting an unspecified number
can only read so many chapters each night
2
: constituting a group or pack
behaved like so many animals
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As has happened with so many rifts in our country’s history, students have simply used their activism to become a prism reflecting the wider world.
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Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2024
There’s so many emotions flowing through me, after two years of work on this, especially as the first solo album of mine to come out of La Base.
—Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2024
For so many people, stand-up is literally the recipe for a nightmare.
—Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2024
There are so many great action movies out there, and a few of them redefined the genre.
—William Earl, Variety, 25 Apr. 2024
The truth, amply demonstrated in this biography, with so many pages devoted to the gentle coaxing of writers, is that editors exercise Freudian transference with their writers far more potently than Freudian analysts do with their patients.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
Tommy is about stuff that so many of us in my generation, and the generations that followed right up to today, are all still suffering from — from the trauma of 200 years of war.
—Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2024
The variation was proof that the same areas that subsided in 1964 had done so many times before during major earthquakes over thousands of years.
—Christian Elliott, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2024
After so many knocks and hardships… the resilience of the human being is incredible.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 24 Apr. 2024
Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2024
There’s so many emotions flowing through me, after two years of work on this, especially as the first solo album of mine to come out of La Base.
—Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2024
For so many people, stand-up is literally the recipe for a nightmare.
—Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Apr. 2024
There are so many great action movies out there, and a few of them redefined the genre.
—William Earl, Variety, 25 Apr. 2024
The truth, amply demonstrated in this biography, with so many pages devoted to the gentle coaxing of writers, is that editors exercise Freudian transference with their writers far more potently than Freudian analysts do with their patients.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
Tommy is about stuff that so many of us in my generation, and the generations that followed right up to today, are all still suffering from — from the trauma of 200 years of war.
—Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2024
The variation was proof that the same areas that subsided in 1964 had done so many times before during major earthquakes over thousands of years.
—Christian Elliott, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2024
After so many knocks and hardships… the resilience of the human being is incredible.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 24 Apr. 2024
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“So many.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/so%20many. Accessed 28 Apr. 2024.
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