plethora
IPA: pɫˈɛθɝʌ
noun
- (usually followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance.
- (medicine) Excess of blood in the skin, especially in the face and especially chronically.
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Examples of "plethora" in Sentences
- What do call a plethora of newsreaders the BBC of course.
- Stinky Peet says: erswi: a plethora is what women pee out of, silly rabbit.
- Don't you just see a guzzillion calendars stacked up when you see the word plethora?
- Heck, he even correctly used the word plethora'' twice in answering questions from reporters.
- Learn about it. just now, -0 / +1Just by the way, when you use the word plethora you are automatically viewed as an *****.
- KATHARINE NEWLIN BURT, also certain minor points, notably the fact that the story, though by no means badly told, suffers from what I can only call a plethora of plot.
- Stagnation of the, blood was supposed to be a fertile cause of diseases, and such diseases were supposed to arise mostly from "plethora" -- an all-important element in Stahl's therapeutics.
- In “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell famously tagged a plethora of “ready-made phrases” that the lazy writer — I include myself here — will often be tempted to employ to do his thinking for him.
- The death sentence the late Philip Johnson pronounced on skyscrapers 15 years ago was directed at the then-prevailing North American skyscraper form, namely the plethora of minimalist boxes of stultifying banality.
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