Thesaurus results for TWENTY

twenty

noun

as in fifty

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Recent Examples of twenty We are steeped in a culture of youth, with a global anti-aging products industry worth billions of dollars, and even women in their twenties using Botox. —

Ashley Milne-Tyte, NPR, 28 Dec. 2024 Or will that interim generation of players in their late twenties essentially get skipped for a newer generation, such as Mandy Haught or Shelby Hogan – or even a young Teagan Wy? —

Jeff Rueter, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024 Having spent much of her twenties in London, and the past year traveling across multiple countries with stop-offs back home, McGowan is now in Scotland—and her dog's reaction says it all. —

Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024 The symphony premièred two hundred years ago in Vienna, when Beethoven’s deafness, which began in his late twenties, had become severe. —

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The invasive sea lamprey brought Great Lakes fishing to its knees in the fifties and sixties, until local communities and scientists battled back.

— Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 17 Jan. 2025
His colleagues were men in their fifties and sixties who’d started out in radio.

— Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025