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batch

/bæt͡ʃ/ noun C2
  1. A bank; a sandbank.
  2. A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.

Plural batches

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A reference to his books showed that hundreds of casts had been taken from a marble copy of Devine’s head of Napoleon, but that the three which had been sent to Morse Hudson a year or so before had been half of a batch of six, the other three being sent to Harding Brothers, of Kensington.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 81 · C1
Her first batch of empanadas fell apart in the oven, and the second batch had almost no flavor.
The Recipe Box, p. 1 · C1
Every batch tastes slightly different, depending on what's in bloom.
Bees on the Roof, p. 1 · C1
Bazalgette also insisted on exceptionally rigorous quality control, ensuring that every batch of cement was thoroughly tested before being utilized.
The Great Stink and the Engineering of a Modern Metropolis, p. 1 · C2

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