plethora
an excessive or overabundant amount of something
Word origin: From Greek plethora, fullness, from plethein, to be full.
Plethora in a sentence
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The new policy created a plethora of forms no one had time to read.
The archive offers a plethora of records, so many that researchers struggle to know where to begin.
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Verbal · Text Completion
The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.
Using “plethora” well
Strictly, plethora means an excessive overabundance, not just a large amount. Careful writers preserve the sense of too much rather than simply many.
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