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Officially 10,000, practically whatever the writer felt too lazy to count.
means An enormous, hard-to-pin-down number of things — more a gesture at 'tons' than an actual count.
from From Greek 'myrias/myrioi,' which literally meant 10,000 — the ancient world's way of saying 'a staggering specific amount.' English borrowed it in that precise sense, but the word drifted loose from its number and became a stand-in for 'countless,' used for anything too many to bother tallying.
- original greek
- meant exactly 10000, not just lots
- grammar fight
- adjective or noun, both correct, pedants disagree anyway
- overuse zone
- beloved by press releases and thesis introductions equally