(a. / pron.) Consisting of a great number; numerous; not few.
(a.) The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community.
(a.) A large or considerable number.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(2) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(3) They’re no crack force either; many are rather portly!
(4) In early 2000, during the first months of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Babitsky was kidnapped by Russian forces and disappeared for many weeks.
(5) The role of whole Mycobacteria, mycobacterial cell walls and waxes D as immunostimulants was well established many years ago.
(6) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(7) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(8) The performance characteristics of the CCD are well documented and understood, having been quantified by many experimenters, especially in the physical sciences.
(9) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
(10) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(11) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
(12) In many cases, physicians seek to protect themselves from involvement with these difficult, highly anxious patients by making a referral to a psychiatrist.
(13) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(14) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(15) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
(16) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
(17) Many problems at the macroscopic level require clarification of how an animal uses a compartment of suite of muscles and whether morphological differences reflect functional ones.
(18) In order to determine the extent of this similarity, I have developed a panel of probes for many of the Pacl restriction fragments and have shown that most of the Pacl and Notl fragments found in MBa are also present in MBb.
(19) Formerly, many patients in this category were considered either inoperable or candidates for total or partial nephrectomy.
(20) A re-examination of the literature indicates that many phagocytes previously unidentified or considered to be microglial cells are probably beta astrocytes.
Zany
Definition:
(n.) A merry-andrew; a buffoon.
(v. t.) To mimic.
Example Sentences:
(1) There’s a plausible view , however, that these extreme positions are not so much sincere commitments as zany weather balloons, floated to see how well they play with the public, as well as to bamboozle his Republican opponents.
(2) There are, he said, “quite a lot of letters and they say some things that are quite zany”.
(3) But nobody ought really to have been surprised because this, after all, is Van Gaal; the king of zaniness and over-the-top outpourings, not to mention latent hostility towards the media.
(4) One of Williams’ final films will be Absolutely Anything, a zany sci-fi comedy starring the Monty Python team alongside Simon Pegg, with Williams voicing a dog.
(5) They are a strange team right now, an end-of-era affair, with a zany, depleted defence and genuine craft and edge elsewhere.
(6) His zany guitar bodies are created using computer-aided design (CAD) software , output in one piece on an EOS 3D printer.
(7) The tone of the game is quite different to previous installments in that a good deal of the zany humour has been drained completely.
(8) On a ITV sofa show this week Corbyn was lured into discussing what he calls his “zany” interest in drains.
(9) The Qatari Armed Forces Investment Portfolio's representative, General Zani al Kuwari, who is also assistant chief of staff for financial affairs, said: "Our objective is to invest in the most important cities, and Barcelona is one of them.
(10) But Texas senator Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush , usually considered a moderate among the zany Republican field, took it a step further: they urged that only Syrian Christians be allowed to come to America as refugees.
(11) Culture A bunch of Mayan villagers are hanging out in the jungle, improbably hunting big game with a zany Indiana Jones-style contraption that looks like a giant sideways meat tenderiser.
(12) For a serious discussion of a subject like this to be granted so much time on British television, where the bulk of wine talk has to be aggressively crammed around the fringes of weekend morning food shows – and even then only so long as the wine expert agrees to spend most of their time on air pulling funny faces and making endless zany ‘zoinks-a-lummy’ proclamations – is extraordinary.
(13) Their humour is zany, beguiling and incongruous: the cast includes a chatty moon, a talking ape and a tiny shaman called Naboo played by Fielding's brother.
(14) Shortly afterwards, citing Rock as a precedent, a Texas Court of Appeals admitted the hypnotically elicited testimony of an eyewitness in Zani v. State (1988), on the grounds that it would be unfair to admit the hypnotically elicited testimony of defendants, and proscribe it for victims and witnesses.
(15) Photograph: Niko Kitsakis I'd been looking forward to browsing the shelves for zany gadgets, but the reality was slightly disappointing.
(16) That zany guy who constantly spouts hilarious zingers on Twitter ?
(17) At a time of crisis it is not about one’s “zany” love of drains, of which more later.
(18) Particularly having wasted a lot of time dealing with a lot of zany, ideological gimmicks from Michael Gove and his team, it would be a good thing if the Liberal Democrats were able to run education policy on our own terms,” he said.
(19) This was a departure from his usual zany-bonkers output, presumably causing millions of listeners to start rifling through the medicine cabinet and cueing up the scene featuring Basil Fawlty thrashing his car with a branch for themselves.
(20) Instead, somehow or other, he has come into possession of a preternaturally phantasmagoric suit of armour, complete with zany high-tech accoutrements; or a hammer that can call down lightning from the heavens; or extendable fingernails; or laser eyesight; or implausible (and non-steroid-related) abs; or the ability to change shape.