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an excessive number of something- A plethora of problems plagued Paula.
plethora = an excessive number of something
- Mom manufactured a plethora of tears to accompany her long-suffering mother diatribe.Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
- You're both seniors and will have to deal with a plethora of people and personalities after you graduate.Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
- The Chicago Evening Post would trumpet the city's vitality: "But when the raging fiend had died of plethora the old energy again came forth....Jim Murphy -- The Great Fire
- "Sure," answered O'Brien, thumping down a plethoric sack by the side of Matthewson's.Jack London -- The Call of the Wild
- Like a plethoric burning martyr, or a self-consuming misanthrope, once ignited, the whale supplies his own fuel and burns by his own body.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
- Now, instead of the plates made of bread, there were covered dishes, scented finger bowls, sumptuous table cloths, a plethora of napkins.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- The rest would be spread around to handle the plethora of specialized tasks necessary to the operation of a complex warship.Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
- And here, on bargain special, was an entire plastic, blue-handled set of cutlery-a virtual plethora of flatware-for only $6.Sarah Dessen -- This Lullaby
- He had a gold tooth and a plethora of nostril hair.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
- The other three lead into Virginia, with its plethora of roadblocks and Union soldiers.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Lincoln
- The Da Vinci she had grabbed, much like the Mona Lisa, was notorious among art historians for its plethora of hidden pagan symbolism.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- He makes his way around the bar and eyes the plethora of desserts covering my counter.Colleen Hoover -- Hopeless
- "Them hunters is the wicked boys," he broke forth again, for he suffered from a constitutional plethora of speech.Jack London -- Sea Wolf
- "I assume with your plethora of aeronautical knowledge, you do know about the Blackbird, don't you?"Dave Peizer -- A Man Named Dave
- He had always been annoyed by the plethora of conspiracy theories that circulated in modern pop culture.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- The colonel was a stout, tall, plethoric German, evidently devoted to the service and patriotically Russian.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- Colin and Hassan followed her to a six-foot-tall obelisk—a kind of miniature Washington Monument—before which la' a plethora of not-new pink silk roses.John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines
- There is too much perception, and beyond the plethora of perceptions, a plethora of thoughts about the perceptions and about the fact of having perceptions.Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
- The plethora of sibilants in the sentence still offended his ear, but he saw no way of amending them without using what were, to his mind, inferior synonyms.Albert Camus -- The Plague
plethora = an excessive number
plethora = an excessive number (of something)