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Recent Examples of twenty-two
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.
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Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2024
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
In the end, UnitedHealth paid a bitcoin ransom worth some twenty-two million dollars, and the system lurched back online.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
One such community is EO, founded in 1987 by Verne Harnish and twenty-two other entrepreneurs.
—Colin C. Campbell, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2024
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
In the end, UnitedHealth paid a bitcoin ransom worth some twenty-two million dollars, and the system lurched back online.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
One such community is EO, founded in 1987 by Verne Harnish and twenty-two other entrepreneurs.
—Colin C. Campbell, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
Noun
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Since the Civic began holding events there, the Legion’s revenue has grown by forty-five per cent.—
Chelsea Edgar,
The New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2025
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In mid-July, the U.K. hosted forty-five European leaders, including Volodymyr Zelensky, of Ukraine, at Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill, where eight hundred scones were served to the guests for tea.—
Sam Knight,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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The Sassenach’s survival is an important development, given that Mrs. Fraser ended the previous episode with a musket ball in her liver and an alarming amount of her blood on the ground.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
6 Jan. 2025
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In recent decades, however, the military has also been polluting the home front, most notably with a toxic chemical never heard of in the era of muskets and drums: PFAS.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
25 Sep. 2024
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Quarterback Patrick Mahomes lined up in the shotgun formation with running back Kareem Hunt behind him and tight ends Travis Kelce and Noah Gray on either side.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN,
8 Feb. 2025
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Football talk is scarce in the NFL’s new three-minute black-and-white promo released today in anticipation of Sunday’s Super Bowl, but with Kendrick Lamar in the driver’s seat, literally, and Timothée Chalamet riding shotgun, few will notice anything else.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
7 Feb. 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
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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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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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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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Natalia returned to Kosovo that fall for another two months of training, and she is currently certified to dispose of mines, rockets, artillery and mortar shells, submunitions, grenades, and small arms.—
Michael Holtz,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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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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The bill proposes to ban the sale or purchase of semiautomatic firearms that accept detachable magazines.—
The Denver Post,
The Denver Post,
8 Feb. 2025
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He has now been charged with two counts of second-degree assault and two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, Metro Transit police announced Friday.—
Kristi Miller,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2025
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