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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

plethora = an excessive number

You're both seniors and will have to deal with a plethora of people and personalities after you graduate.
Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry

plethora = an excessive number (of something)

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

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