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a very large number — often of things that are not identical

he faced a myriad of details
As they hiked, Mack thought about the myriad of things he had experienced during the previous two days.
William P. Young -- The Shack

myriad = very large number

They will be a single entity, as you yourselves are the sums of your myriad cells.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End

myriad = very large number of different

That wink could speak a myriad of emotions, and I never thought I would see it again after attending his funeral.
Jim Stovall -- The Ultimate Gift

myriad = a very large number of different

myriad = a very large number

Now she turned her head to see the myriads of Tralfamadorians outside the dome.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five

myriads = a large indefinite number

Oscar, do you want to know—now all the interplay of politics of a myriad worlds and twenty universes over millennia in arriving at the present crisis?
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road

myriad = very large number of different

The myriad flecks of the plankton were annulled now by the high sun and...
Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea

myriad = many (and slightly different)

...and the bluffs on the far side were stained and cavepocked and traversed by a constant myriad of swallows.
Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses

myriad = very large number

myriads = a very large number

It was the color of her skin, without the glow, the myriad living tints that one may sometimes discover in vibrant flesh.
Chopin, Kate -- The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
The nearer sea was flashing the sun from a myriad facets.
Wells, H.G. -- The Island of Doctor Moreau
myriad stars
Besides the law of meat, there were a myriad other and lesser laws for him to learn and obey.
London, Jack -- White Fang
The myriad scents of the land entered his keen nostrils, but he made no note of them.
London, Jack -- Jerry of the Islands
After a silence—myriads of kisses around them as the earth drew the water in— he continued: " Do you know anything about this Krishna business?"
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
I have witnessed human minds affecting the physical world in myriad ways.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
Once people see that there are solutions, they will be more willing to help in myriad other ways.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
He was nothing, the smallest particle of dust surrounded by a myriad of other particles of dust, and put all together, they were...nothing but dust.
Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia

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