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English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhʌndɹədz/, /ˈhʌndɹɪdz/
- Hyphenation: hun‧dreds
Noun
hundreds
- plural of hundred
The infected number in the hundreds
2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.
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