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• n  a large number or amount
• n  the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one

• Rescuers dug through rocks and debris with their bare hands Thursday in search of dozens of villagers believed buried in a landslide triggered by a strong Indonesian earthquake .
• By making dozens of copies of a mouse, scientists take cloning one step closer to the assembly line AUGUST 3, 1998.
• Just about every top director and major studio is doing it--a dozen movies are slated to arrive this year, with dozens more in the works for 2010 and beyond.

• tons
• heaps
• lots
• piles
• scores
• stacks
• loads
• rafts
• slews
• wads
• oodles
• gobs
• scads
• lashings
• twelve
• 12
• XII
• dozen

News & Articles

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• Dozens Of Local Residents Experience Power Outages
  Dozens of residents were without power this afternoon according to Bryan Texas Utilities.
  June 30, 2013 - KBTX 3 Bryan - College Station
• Dozens Turn In Guns In North Philly
  Dozens of guns are now off the streets of Philadelphia after a gun buyback took place Saturday.
  June 30, 2013 - CBS Philadelphia
• Dozens of same-sex couples line up to be married
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Dozens of gay couples waited excitedly Saturday outside of San Francisco's City Hall as clerks resumed issuing same-sex marriage licenses, one day after a federal appeals court cleared the way for the state of California to immediately lift a 4 ½ year freeze.
  June 29, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Colin Renfrew in CNN
  We've got hundreds of marble bowl fragments and many dozens of figurine fragments, which don't seem to fit together,said Renfrew, an emeritus professor of archaeology at Cambridge University and former director of the McDonald Institute for...
• Gordon Brown in FOXNews
  My visit is an opportunity to say thank you to the thousands of British, Afghan and international troops involved and to the dozens of civilian experts working on stabilization,Brown said. "Their bravery, sacrifice and professionalism are...
• Chipper Jones in USA Today
  I got a good pitch to hit and tried to come out of my shoes to hit it,Jones said. "I'm a switch-hitter, it's something that's happened to me dozens of times. Hopefully, it will just be a couple days."