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slew

/sl(j)uː/ noun C2
  1. A large amount. · She has a slew of papers and notebooks strewn all over her desk.
  2. A crowd or large number of people.

Plural slews

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When they had admitted him into the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of them in one day than the Kite could pounce upon in a whole year.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 27 · B2
He was drawing in this circle geometrical lines, and seemed as much absorbed in his problem as Archimedes was when the soldier of Marcellus slew him.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 133 · C1

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