What's the difference between abounding and plenty?

Abounding


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abound

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Short-forms of Wechsler intelligence tests have abounded in the literature and have been recommended for use as screening instruments in clinical and research settings.
  • (2) Whilst there were some encouraging signs of behaviour change, opportunities for the spread of HIV continued to abound in this important group.
  • (3) Lewis adds: Dark rumours of personal frictions during the Clinton Administration abound but, politically, a Yellen appointment would probably be the easiest course for the President to pursue.
  • (4) Clinical medicine abounds in uncertainties arising from the very nature of clinical data and physicians' judgments.
  • (5) Although psychiatric literature abounds in allusions to the phenomenon of "déjà vu", few communications were devoted to an analysis of this interesting psychological state.
  • (6) While breads might abound in the world's cuisine, whether they are employed as a means of making a reasonably tidy portable meal limns the sandwich classification.
  • (7) Evidence of the existence of these two separate functions abounds in animals and in humans, but a clinical advantage has not evolved.
  • (8) Although invasive as well as noninvasive tools have been developed to determine the existence of this disorder, none is perfect and false negative as well as false positive diagnoses abound.
  • (9) While it is true that a descending chromatic four-chord progression is a common convention that abounds in the music industry, the similarities here transcend this core structure,” Klausner wrote.
  • (10) However, the skills required for such a task are often not acquired in academic training, nor do scientific journals abound with information on the practical aspects of running a large study.
  • (11) Tensions, suspicions and misunderstandings between Germany and its eurozone partners abound.
  • (12) Krebs and Meyer's (162) "marked differences in findings between one investigator and another," and Senay's (245) comment 77 years later that "disagreements abound" can now be seen as an inevitable consequence of the widely differing experimental protocols and procedures that have been adopted.
  • (13) Ultrastructural studies revealed that with estrogens, the cultures had the appearance of rapidly dividing cells having large euchromatic nuclei and prominent nucleoli, with aboundant free ribosomes in the cytoplasm.
  • (14) The deaths or disappearance of more than 40 journalists, probably because of their work in this period, together with the direct and indirect threats that abound in all the main hotspots, mean most regional media limit their coverage to superficial reporting of violent events and arrests.
  • (15) Pence met repeatedly with House Republicans but rebels still abounded.
  • (16) Tales of tips to hostesses and waitresses of £50,000 also abounded.
  • (17) Although the literature abounds with strategies to prevent unionization, little had been presented on establishing and maintaining effective relations with bargaining units.
  • (18) Rumours abound that Trump has had some link to Putin’s sinister finances.
  • (19) In the basal telencephalon NPY-immunoreactive cells abound mostly in striatum, but some are also found in the amygdala (particularly basal, central, and lateral amygdaloid nuclei), the claustrum, and in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.
  • (20) With its troops heavily involved in southern Somalia, suggestions abound that Nairobi may seek to create a permanent buffer zone in the three Somali regions – Gedo, Lower Juba and Middle Juba – abutting Kenya's North Eastern province.

Plenty


Definition:

  • (a.) Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness.
  • (a.) Plentiful; abundant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But last year Rosi Santoni, one of the relatives who helped look after her, said she had plenty of family to care for her and had many friends in the town.
  • (2) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
  • (3) There are, however, plenty of arguments to be made about the Slim Reaper's supporting cast.
  • (4) In the nerve fibre running between the sensory cells there are plenty of mitochondria but few clear vesicles and neurofilaments.
  • (5) But there is plenty here that thrills, from grand plans for offshore power production to the micro-engineeering of intelligent load management.
  • (6) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
  • (7) Whilst a charity may seem to have plenty of cash to meet its general liabilities, if the money is in the form of restricted funds it can only be used with permission of the donor or the Charity Commission .
  • (8) "If you don't want my gear [on TV], I've got plenty of other places to take it," Jamie Oliver told advertisers last autumn, brazenly and a tad cheekily, at a Channel 4 "upfront" preview presentation of its 2014 schedule.
  • (9) Plenty of people felt embarrassed, upset, outraged or betrayed by the Goncourts' record of things they had said or had said about them.
  • (10) And there are plenty who think that, as our libel laws are cleaned up, smart lawyers are switching horses to privacy.
  • (11) And there is plenty of beauty in London - seeing Parliament Square in the snow, the dome of St Paul's rising above the City, the simple perfection of a Georgian terrace or the quietly elegant streets of Mayfair.
  • (12) There are plenty of creative, lawyerly brains in Brussels: with goodwill, they might just find a way through.
  • (13) After spending a good five minutes sketching out the vast scale of the economic and social challenge facing the town, Wright is careful to stress that Hartlepool still has plenty to fuel its inherent optimism.
  • (14) Yes, we can assign more or less responsibility – I blame Austria-Hungary and Germany for their mad determination to destroy Serbia knowing that a general war might result – but there is still plenty of room for disagreement.
  • (15) But Zhang described $9m of that as legitimate profit from an iron-ore deal, adding: "There are plenty of reasons to argue against the rest of the amount."
  • (16) Some consumers are aware we are earning so little, but there are plenty who really don’t care as long as it’s cheap John has calculated that he often takes home as little as £5.75 an hour, and rarely earns above the national minimum wage of £7.50.
  • (17) There have been plenty of calls for the European Central Bank to authorise a programme of quantitative easing when it meets this week, and the ECB president, Mario Draghi, appeared to be responding in a recent speech in the US, only to row back.
  • (18) Although the crude oil rally has already started at the end of last month when the Opec first announced the deal, I think there is plenty of fuel left in this rally,” he said.
  • (19) One of his principal worries is up front, where his main man is Michal Duris, who has scored plenty of goals for Viktoria Plzen in the Czech league this season but it is easy to add the caveat that it is only the Czech league.
  • (20) From Frances O'Grady , the TUC general secretary While it's good news that unemployment is still falling and more jobs are being created, there is still plenty to be worried about.

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