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plethorapleth‧o‧ra /ˈpleθərə/ noun plethoraOrigin: 1500-1600 Medieval Latin, Greek, ‘fullness’, from plethein ‘to be full’ - And the plethora of morning news and business shows can make certain stories round-the-clock assignments.
- Despite a plethora of changes, the new models are just £295 more than the cars they replace.
- Set up a plethora of new commissions and executive agencies.
- The plethora of published research is testimony to this.
- The endemic hypochondria of the Texans was milked by a plethora of expensive clinics which most of them attended.
- Whatever the reason, the plethora of choices has increased the brutally competitive environment for fast-food restaurants in the past year.
- Why is there such a plethora of exotic phenomena at the centre, and how can they be explained?
► a plethora of something- The city faces a plethora of problems.
- Despite a plethora of changes, the new models are just £295 more than the cars they replace.
- Festivals in his honour are marked by a plethora of flowers, and the lusciously scented frangipani is held sacred to him.
- He knows a plethora of extraneous facts about the arctic and the tropics.
- In the wake of the Wall Street Crash Congress enacted a plethora of legislation aimed at ensuring fair and orderly markets.
- Inside, the church is the shape of the Latin cross, with a plethora of side chapels.
- Other Republicans foresee a period of intensified investigation into activities of the Clintons and their associates ending with a plethora of indictments.
- The endemic hypochondria of the Texans was milked by a plethora of expensive clinics which most of them attended.
- There is, to put it briefly, a plethora of offerings to which the term theory has been applied in sociology.
a plethora of something formal a very large number of something, usually more than you need: a plethora of suggestions |