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Recent Examples of twenty-two
The 122 diamonds around the top edges recognize the NFL centennial and the team’s twenty-two playoff appearances.
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Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2025
By this point, the attorneys general of twenty-two states and the District of Columbia had also sued the Administration.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2025
Chapters twenty-two and twenty-six record Saul’s testimony of the experience.
—Dan Miller, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Last March, Barbara, now twenty-two, moved into her own apartment in Kraków, a ten-minute bike ride from her mother’s.
—Helen Sullivan, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2025
By this point, the attorneys general of twenty-two states and the District of Columbia had also sued the Administration.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2025
Chapters twenty-two and twenty-six record Saul’s testimony of the experience.
—Dan Miller, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Last March, Barbara, now twenty-two, moved into her own apartment in Kraków, a ten-minute bike ride from her mother’s.
—Helen Sullivan, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
Noun
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Around forty-five million dollars, or sixteen per cent, of its money comes from the federal government, and is earmarked for maintenance and building operations.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2025
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What that means—when Bunty might report to work, and what happens after forty-five days—went unsaid.—
Peter Slevin,
The New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Beretta traces its history to 1526, when Bartolomeo Beretta (d. 1565), a rifle barrel maker in the small northern Italian town of Gardone, sold 185 arquebus barrels—a handheld long gun and a forerunner to the modern rifle—to the Republic of Venice.—
Giacomo Tognini,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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The worshipers insisted on congregating to pray at the crucifix in the local church and threatened to shoot with an arquebus – a long gun used during the Renaissance period – anyone who got in their way.—
Hannah Marcus,
The Conversation,
25 Sep. 2020
Noun
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The excavation revealed items from various conflicts, including cannonballs, musket shells, and nearly 400 military explosives.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
7 Mar. 2025
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Cannonballs and musket shells from the Prussian and Napoleonic periods, ceramics from later periods and objects from the World Wars were among the finds, archaeologists said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2025
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Four officers ran to the fence - three pulling out handguns and another pointing what appeared to be a shotgun.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2025
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So the next day, his father rode shotgun, guiding him through traffic and offering wisdom: Never race other taxis to a fare.—
Jonah Markowitz,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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Although a gunshot from a flintlock pistol lasts only an eye blink, the sound is composed of numerous elements: the squeeze of the trigger, the strike of the firing mechanism against the flint, the ignition of the powder, the slug’s passage through the barrel, the report, the impact.—
Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025
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My first rifle had been a flintlock that had been given to me by an old friend, Ed Wesson, the gunsmith.—
Outdoor Life,
Outdoor Life,
23 Nov. 2023
Noun
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First-generation matchlock rifles, tanks, and aircraft had major limitations but improved over time.—
Paul Scharre,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Feb. 2018
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Guns are a part of American life, and have been since the very beginning, from the matchlock muskets arming the earliest colonies to the Colt revolvers and Winchester rifles of the Old West to the Glock handgun of today.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
7 Mar. 2018
Noun
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Now comes President Donald Trump with his blunderbuss actions that weaken or threaten to weaken the press across the board, perplexing us all who are paying attention.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025
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Cost cutting ‘blunderbuss’ DOGE is part of a long line of presidential efforts to take an ax to the administrative state.—
Zac Anderson,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2025
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Another pair of small arms — possibly belonging to Prince Archie — can be seen off to the side, holding a piece of cake.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
People.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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There will be moments, in any month’s pause, where small arms clashes, or drone strikes, prove impossible to attribute to either side as the aggressor: where AI-manipulation, or faked accounts, or entirely fictitious incidents, fill the information space.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
11 Mar. 2025
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