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Finally, after half a dozen or so tries, the Zaida crew retrieved a towline.
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David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
Rolling forward and backward, possibly to complicate enemy targeting, the tank fired half a dozen rounds in quick succession at targets in a treeline just a few hundred yards away.
—David Axe, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Tumultuous rainfall caused a rising river to strand half a dozen rescuers, Cal Fire and the Urban Search and Rescue Team overnight.
—Chase Hunter, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2025
And in the paradigmatic blue state of California, more than half a dozen formerly blue counties are now, so to speak, in the red.
—Michelle Weber, Longreads, 30 Dec. 2024
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David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
Rolling forward and backward, possibly to complicate enemy targeting, the tank fired half a dozen rounds in quick succession at targets in a treeline just a few hundred yards away.
—David Axe, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
Tumultuous rainfall caused a rising river to strand half a dozen rescuers, Cal Fire and the Urban Search and Rescue Team overnight.
—Chase Hunter, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2025
And in the paradigmatic blue state of California, more than half a dozen formerly blue counties are now, so to speak, in the red.
—Michelle Weber, Longreads, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Half a dozen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/half%20a%20dozen. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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