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Webster Dictionary

  1. Pounds

    of Pound

  2. Pounds

    of Pound

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. POUNDS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pounds is ranked #5121 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Pounds surname appeared 6,838 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Pounds.

    68.2% or 4,666 total occurrences were White.
    26.2% or 1,794 total occurrences were Black.
    2.5% or 175 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.9% or 132 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.5% or 37 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.5% or 34 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'pounds' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1574

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'pounds' in Written Corpus Frequency: #204

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pounds in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pounds in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of pounds in a Sentence

  1. Tiffany Haddish:

    I'm about to be starting playing this like crazy, maybe I'll lose 10 to 15 pounds. Who knows?

  2. Glen VanHerck:

    [F]rom a safety standpoint, picture yourself with large debris weighing hundreds if not thousands of pounds falling out of the sky. That’s really what we’re kind of talking about, so glass off of solar panels, potentially hazardous material, such as material that is required for a batteries to operate in such an environment as this and even the potential for explosives to detonate and destroy the balloon that could have been present.

  3. Steve McMichael:

    I know what it feels like to go in the weight room and do a set of three with 725 pounds on the squat rack, now? When I get up and try to move? It feels like I’m doing 1,000 (expletive) pounds. And it’s just exhausting straining that hard.

  4. Mary Creagh:

    The government claims that the UK is a world leader on tackling climate change, but behind the scenes the UK's export finance schemes are handing out billions of pounds of taxpayers money to develop fossil fuel projects in poorer countries.

  5. Bryan Atkinson:

    There's the famous 22 pounds of Tannerite, this YETI ain't ready.

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