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Recent Examples of forty-five
To speed up the count and to improve the system, in 2022, the state passed Act 88, which distributed forty-five million dollars to counties in exchange for their agreement to process ballots around the clock until the count is completed.
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Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2024
Turn your body toward the person, make eye contact, and listen for thirty or forty-five seconds.
—Leon E. Moores, Md, Dsc, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
In the mid-sixties, a team of scientists succeeded in drilling all the way through the ice sheet, about forty-five hundred feet deep.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2024
Turn your body toward the person, make eye contact, and listen for thirty or forty-five seconds.
—Leon E. Moores, Md, Dsc, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
In the mid-sixties, a team of scientists succeeded in drilling all the way through the ice sheet, about forty-five hundred feet deep.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for forty-five
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Arizona has a state firearm (the Colt Single Action revolver) and a state neckwear (the bola tie).Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2024
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Credit card companies position themselves in the middle, profiting from both interchange fees from merchants and interest payments from revolvers.Boaz Sobrado, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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From an opening scene on the high seas as a French merchant ship is aflame to a stag hunt on an aristocratic estate to a pistol duel at dawn, the writer-directors capture the scope and grandeur of Dumas’ story.Scott Phillips, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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He had been shot four times with a .45-caliber pistol and had been struck by a vehicle, police said.Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 29 Dec. 2024
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Two law enforcement sources told CBS News that the suspect also had an AR-15 style weapon and a handgun with him at the time of the attack.Kerry Breen, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2025
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Be careful though, as the chances of the handgun blowing up in your face increase with each shot.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
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One hundred and fifty-nine years ago, a 26-year-old white supremacist and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth pointed a .44 caliber derringer pistol at the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head and squeezed the trigger.Brian Matthew Jordan, National Review, 14 Apr. 2024
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This victim’s vision seems weird and fraudulent when Priscilla casually color-coordinates derringer pistols with designer dresses.Armond White, National Review, 3 Nov. 2023
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All twenty-two recommendations that cleared this seventy-five-per-cent threshold were presented in November to the Bend City Council, the county commissioners, and a body of formerly homeless young people called the Central Oregon Youth Action Board.Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2024
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Today an international icon passed away: former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died at age 100 at his home in Plains, GA, after more than twenty-two (22) months in hospice.Steve Tengler, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
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The Broncos’ most successful regular season since Peyton Manning hung up his six-shooter ended with a historic, and emphatic laugher.Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 5 Jan. 2025
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One look at the bottle, whose stopper resembles an Old West-style six-shooter, confirms it.Tony Sachs, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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In the first quarter, while trailing 3-0, Williams dropped back to pass and tried to flick the ball up the field with a sidearm pass.Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 13 Oct. 2024
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Driving the news: The Phillies simulated Mets' starting pitcher Sean Manaea's oddball, sidearm delivery during batting practice.Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
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Listen to this article A state man has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for trafficking firearms into Connecticut from North Carolina and distributing crack cocaine.Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2025
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Witnesses told officers that the Hayes-Reed’s firearm had malfunctioned.Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Jan. 2025
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“Forty-five.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forty-five. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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