General Placeholder Names
English has many words whose definition includes an indefinite quantity, such as "lots", "many", "plenty", "several", and "some". A number of other words have been used to convey the idea in informal or humorous ways, such as "gobs of "(e.g., "gobs of jobs" career fair); and n-something, used especially to indicate someone's age within a decade, e.g., twentysomething.
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