How to Use magnitude in a Sentence
magnitude
noun
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The magnitude of the loss of a 30-plus year friendship.
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Jennifer Yuma,
Variety,
24 Sep. 2021
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And, of course, the chance to work on a telescope of that magnitude was unique.
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Daniel Alarcón,
The New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2021
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But its magnitude was felt all across the sports world.
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Dallas News,
15 Oct. 2020
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Something of this magnitude must be tackled by the feds and the states.
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cleveland,
1 June 2021
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The amount of moved earth in a magnitude 7.8 quake can be eye-popping.
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Los Angeles Times,
25 July 2019
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This would be the third bump of that magnitude in a row, and a fourth may well come before the year is out.
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Alan Murray,
Fortune,
21 Sep. 2022
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Since these two fields have the same magnitude, the net field would be zero.
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Wired,
31 July 2022
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This is still year, but home field for the playoffs is at stake in a game of this magnitude.
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Richard Obert,
The Arizona Republic,
25 June 2021
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The public deserves to know the magnitude of this guy’s bad faith.
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Grayson Quay,
The Week,
18 Apr. 2022
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Flashback: The mall opened in 1988, and the food court has not seen an overhaul of this magnitude since.
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Madalyn Mendoza,
Axios,
15 July 2024
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The success of a summit of this magnitude isn't measured in a day.
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Eric Talmadge,
Fox News,
10 June 2018
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Those shifts have been dramatic: rarely are changes of this magnitude seen in the course of a few weeks.
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Michael Robbins,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Dec. 2023
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Most of the earthquakes have been smaller with a magnitude less than 4.
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Sarah Rumpf,
Fox News,
3 Aug. 2022
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What was the preparation like for a project of this magnitude?
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Mark Elibert,
Billboard,
14 Feb. 2022
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The next time an asteroid of this magnitude will come that close to Earth is a decade from now.
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Fox News,
24 Sep. 2019
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But hosting an event of this magnitude comes at a cost.
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Steve Gardner,
USA TODAY,
16 June 2023
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Jurado didn’t have much time to soak in the magnitude of being called up to the big leagues.
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Drew Davison,
star-telegram,
19 May 2018
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The researchers used software to rate the magnitude of the cats’ reactions to a speech sound.
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Tanya Lewis,
Scientific American,
12 Dec. 2022
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The challenges to come would dwarf that episode by orders of magnitude.
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Alexander Burns,
New York Times,
24 Oct. 2020
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Five earthquakes with a magnitude of more than 3 have been recorded in the area.
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From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports,
USA TODAY,
18 July 2022
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When a star of this magnitude explodes, its brightness shoots through the roof.
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Jackie Appel,
Popular Mechanics,
18 May 2023
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To be clear, the smart thing to do with a payday of that magnitude is to invest it and live off the interest.
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Bychris Morris,
Fortune,
20 Mar. 2024
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So the magnitude of the scope of this attack is really quite large.
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Sara Moniuszko,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2024
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There are simply no words to convey the magnitude of this tragedy.
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Jill Smolowe,
PEOPLE.com,
5 Feb. 2018
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Since that time, a larger (magnitude 6.2) quake took place in Chile.
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IEEE Spectrum,
27 Sep. 2023
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That a kill notice of this magnitude happened is a big deal.
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Mia Sato,
The Verge,
12 Mar. 2024
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Red circles show earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater in the past year.
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National Geographic,
23 June 2020
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Given the magnitude of its spread, no amount of caution can be enough.
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Ananya Bhattacharya,
Quartz India,
12 Mar. 2020
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Normally, an economic explosion of this magnitude would be the kind of win that any politician would fight for and hinge reelections on.
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Patrick George,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2024
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But in New Jersey’s Tewksbury township—the epicenter of the magnitude 4.8 quake—residents barely felt any shaking at all.
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Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Oct. 2024
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