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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of a thousand in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of a thousand in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of a thousand in a Sentence

  1. Mitch McConnell:

    I don't believe Vladimir Putin would have a couple of hundred thousand troops on the border with Ukraine had we not precipitously withdrawn from Afghanistan last August, the impression we have left, first with the abandonment of Afghanistan, is that America is not interested in playing as large a leadership role as we used to.

  2. Anonymous:

    A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.

  3. David Lloyd George:

    Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite; who made ten thousand people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?

  4. Jessica Vaughn:

    [This] is only a fraction of what the smugglers [who are putting them on the trucks] are getting, it’s a couple thousand – I believe the going rate was around $3,000 a person.

  5. Victor Hugo:

    Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation.

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