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Recent Examples of twenty-two
Chapters twenty-two and twenty-six record Saul’s testimony of the experience.
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Dan Miller, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Last March, Barbara, now twenty-two, moved into her own apartment in Kraków, a ten-minute bike ride from her mother’s.
—Helen Sullivan, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The deregulation push was a great success, with laws enacted in twenty-two states by 1925.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 28 Jan. 2025
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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Dan Miller, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Last March, Barbara, now twenty-two, moved into her own apartment in Kraków, a ten-minute bike ride from her mother’s.
—Helen Sullivan, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The deregulation push was a great success, with laws enacted in twenty-two states by 1925.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 28 Jan. 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
Noun
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On Tuesday, nearly a month after the firings, the U.S.D.A. announced that probationary employees like Bunty would be reinstated for forty-five days, with back pay.—
Peter Slevin,
The New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2025
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This production, which collapses in its first few instants and then drags itself painfully along for two hours and forty-five minutes, is a cautionary tale about relying on stardom.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
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The musket ball was finally removed 17 years after Miller was wounded.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 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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The brothers were sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in their Beverly Hills mansion.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
12 Mar. 2025
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During a 2017 incident, a pheasant hunter in north-central Iowa was accidentally shot and wounded when a dog stepped on a shotgun's trigger guard and the gun fired.—
Aliza Chasan,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 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
Noun
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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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Also, the cuff size is a bit large and may not be ideal for small arms.—
Loren Brutsch,
Health,
19 Feb. 2025
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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 12-year-old was seen holding a firearm in the video, according to police.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
18 Mar. 2025
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Five days after the killing, Mangione was taken into custody at the McDonalds and charged with possessing an unlicensed firearm, forgery and providing false identification in Pennsylvania.—
Christine Pelisek,
People.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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