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Discover LudwigThe word "umpteen" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it in informal writing to describe a large but indefinite number of something. For example, "My sister has collected umpteen old magazines over the years."
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umpteen
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Relatively large but unspecified in number.
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The no-washing movement (and by that I mean umpteen blogs and online communities) skips the conditioner too, instead using "natural substances" such as egg, bicarbonate of soda, vinegar or just plain water.
The singer-songwriter has made umpteen hugely acclaimed but commensurately small-selling albums with his former groups – the Broken Family Band and the Singing Adams – and this solo debut is as glorious as any of them.
You'd think that being in a band with umpteen members would be a right old gas.
Australia is actually seeing them at the start of their tour rather than the end – they're headlining umpteen big festivals this year including the great Primavera Sound in Spain.
Mr Hague was talking, as he had in umpteen previous speeches, about a different subject dear to his heart: the danger which he thinks the government's policies on Europe and the constitution, taken together, pose to Britain's national identity.
But the harsh fact to digest this week is that Saddam Hussein has not complied with Resolution 1441, the sombre "final opportunity" offered in November by the Security Council before, it said, he would face "serious consequences" for being in breach of umpteen previous sombre resolutions telling him to give up, and stop seeking, weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
Now, however, greens and sceptics are finding a few patches of common ground based on a growing body of research on cheap ways to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.Later this month, umpteen heads of state are due to discuss climate change and other green matters at an environmental summit in New York.
And, as Mr Blair has argued umpteen times before, it was not just the inadequate funding of the past that was the problem, but the inability of monopolistic provision to respond to consumer needs.
In fact, considering the umpteen governments and prime ministers the country has got through, the system was for many years surprisingly stable.Until the 1990s, Italian politics was dominated by two parties: the Christian Democrats and the Communists.
Mr Muhammad's car was spotted because details about it were leaked to the press; the police, weirdly, had wanted to keep it secret.Some think the FBI should have taken over the inquiry, which involves umpteen different forces.
Europe's Muslims are represented by umpteen different groups, often squabbling and often as concerned with the interests of a government abroad as with those of the people they say they want to help.
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