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Several vs. Multiple
Several
/ˈsevərəl/Examples:
Several evenings later Marian again visited him, this time alone.Anne taped several commercials and fled to Palm Beach with Kevin.Several true friends now came to visit Tom in prison.
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Multiple
/ˈmʌltəpəl/Examples:
Keep it somewhere multiple family members can see and add too.Telmen has given him multiple windows to move.Multiple explosions resound around me.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Both several and multiple imply more than one, but they differ in nuance.
- Several typically means more than two but not too many, often implying a number one could count without difficulty.
- Multiple implies more than one without specifying an upper count, suggesting a larger or indefinite number.
- Think of several as dealing with things you can easily count up to a handful, whereas multiple can involve more extensive or diverse quantities.
- Use several for a moderately small number, and multiple if the quantity could be larger or varied.
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