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Recent Examples of twenty-two
The society was founded, in 1785, by twenty-two local craftsmen, whose trades included tanning, silversmithing, ship-joining, stonecutting, coach-making, and chandlery.
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David Owen, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
The Yankees and the Dodgers are baseball’s Big Oil franchises, the prosperous winners of now forty-one and twenty-two pennants, respectively, since the World Series began.
—Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024
Five years, eight egg retrievals, five transfers, one endometriosis diagnosis, twenty-two procedures under anesthesia, two abdominal surgeries, and four miscarriages.
—Tara Lipinski, Allure, 15 Oct. 2024
In Incheon, K-pop luminaries were performing before an audience of twenty-two thousand.
—Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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David Owen, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
The Yankees and the Dodgers are baseball’s Big Oil franchises, the prosperous winners of now forty-one and twenty-two pennants, respectively, since the World Series began.
—Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024
Five years, eight egg retrievals, five transfers, one endometriosis diagnosis, twenty-two procedures under anesthesia, two abdominal surgeries, and four miscarriages.
—Tara Lipinski, Allure, 15 Oct. 2024
In Incheon, K-pop luminaries were performing before an audience of twenty-two thousand.
—Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
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This would be Tuckahoe, New York, 35 minutes from Grand Central Terminal and my home town for the past forty-five years.John Mariani, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
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For forty-five years, Tehran’s Shiite theocracy has heralded its political system as a model for all predominantly Muslim countries—and even beyond.Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 19 Dec. 2024
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Across the Atlantic Ocean in Massachusetts, archaeologists dug up a set of much smaller projectiles: five musket balls fired during the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
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Eventually Claire is able to remove the second musket ball, and Lord John happily announces the news to William and Rachel, who are waiting in the parlor.Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 29 Nov. 2024
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In 2020, police had raided the home of Randy’s dad and seized cocaine, fentanyl, cash, a couple Mossberg shotguns, a pill press, and a stun gun.Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2025
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Detectives later learned that Mr. Greer carried a double-barrel 12-gauge shotgun in his patrol car and that Ms. Easterly had been shot with a 12-gauge shotgun.Michael Levenson, New York Times, 4 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
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Modern gun technologies are far, far more deadly than the one-shot flintlocks of the 18th century—shouldn’t that matter?Robert J. Spitzer, Time, 6 June 2023
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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
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Colman is Edith Swan, a middle-aged church lady who still lives with her blunderbuss of a father (Timothy Spall) and mild-mannered mother (Gemma Jones) in a working-class neighborhood of Littlehampton.Ty Burr, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
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The State Department, in its blunderbuss way, wanted to open up a kind of détente with the citizens of Communist Eastern Europe.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Mar. 2023
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The benefits of such innovation are clear: first, the armor and size of the vehicle protect the driver against small arms fire.David L. Knoll, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2016
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In addition to the HIMARS boost, the latest shipment includes unmanned aerial systems, counter-drone systems, high-speed anti-radiation missiles, armored and light tactical vehicles, as well as small arms munitions, training and services for Ukraine's Armed Forces.Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
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The bill redefines dealers to include anyone who sells over 11 firearms or specific components annually.Tim Clouser | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 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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