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The term “numerous” is employed by writers to convey abundance and variety, often serving to paint a vivid picture of the natural world, human endeavors, or abstract concepts. In adventure and historical narratives, it emphasizes the multitude of elements present in a scene—as in descriptions of flocks of birds or armies in battle [1, 2, 3]—while in treatises on subjects like medicine, psychoanalysis, or natural history, it underscores the extensive range of data or phenomena being examined [4, 5, 6]. Moreover, its usage in literary and philosophical texts often lends a sense of overwhelming quantity, helping authors to stress both variety and magnitude in a manner that enriches their narrative or argumentation [7, 8, 9].
  1. On the other side, on Safety Islet, numerous birds were gravely strutting.
    — from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
  2. Blood covers the ground, the blows are more numerous, but victory still hangs in the balance.
    — from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal
  3. And he divided the people, and set the horsemen in the midst of the footmen: but the horsemen of the enemies were very numerous.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  4. In a single dream a particularly troublesome element may be represented by "duplicates," that is, by numerous symbols.
    — from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
  5. He may ask where are the remains of those infinitely numerous organisms which must have existed long before the Cambrian system was deposited?
    — from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
  6. He wrote much and made numerous valuable investigations on subjects connected with astronomy, physics, and mathematics.
    — from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various
  7. And Varuna, the adorable lord of waters with his terrible Pasa, 80 and surrounded by numerous aquatic animals, marched slowly with the trident.
    — from The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1
  8. The numerous arts of verisimilitude by which Plato insinuates into the mind of the reader the truth of his narrative have been already referred to.
    — from Timaeus by Plato
  9. He was one of the numerous men of ordinary talent.
    — from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Cerfberr and Christophe

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