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- noun Plural form of
plethora .
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Examples
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These plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world mounting to the brain of one man, — this would be mortal to civilization were it to last.
Les Miserables 2008
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Hi YE, gravel is great for plethoras as well as feetsies.
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We think we're so sophisticated, but we're still bloodletting with leeches to cure us of our plethoras.
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We think we're so sophisticated, but we're still bloodletting with leeches to cure us of our plethoras.
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Oxen are fattened into plethoras to encourage agriculture, and men of station dress like grooms, and bet like blacklegs, to keep up the breed of horses.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various
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Social Life will lead to phases of over-population and scarcity, there will be occasional famines and occasional pestilences and plethoras of vitality leading to the blood-letting of war.
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These plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world mounting to the brain of one man, -- this would be mortal to civilization were it to last.
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These plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world mounting to the brain of one man, -- this would be mortal to civilization were it to last.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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We've had plethoras of destroyed evidence and lies to courts - but you find nothing there indicative that the criminals knew they were being criminal.
Firedoglake emptywheel 2010
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