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Recent Examples of twenty-two
By this point, the attorneys general of twenty-two states and the District of Columbia had also sued the Administration.
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Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2025
Chapters twenty-two and twenty-six record Saul’s testimony of the experience.
—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
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Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2025
Chapters twenty-two and twenty-six record Saul’s testimony of the experience.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
Noun
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The rest of us patrolled for another forty-five minutes, retracing our steps through the festival, fielding kudos and remaining vigilant.—
Kent Russell,
Harper's Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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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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Beretta traces its history to 1526, when Bartolomeo Beretta (d. 1565), a rifle barrel maker in the small northern Italian town of Gardone, sold 185 arquebus barrels—a handheld long gun and a forerunner to the modern rifle—to the Republic of Venice.—
Giacomo Tognini,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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The worshipers insisted on congregating to pray at the crucifix in the local church and threatened to shoot with an arquebus – a long gun used during the Renaissance period – anyone who got in their way.—
Hannah Marcus,
The Conversation,
25 Sep. 2020
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Some key finds were a 4,500-year-old projectile point, animal bones in fireplaces that revealed the soldiers’ diet, and lead drippings from a task usually assigned to the women of the encampments: pouring lead into molds to create musket balls.—
Pamela Brown,
Hartford Courant,
18 Mar. 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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Four officers ran to the fence - three pulling out handguns and another pointing what appeared to be a shotgun.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2025
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So the next day, his father rode shotgun, guiding him through traffic and offering wisdom: Never race other taxis to a fare.—
Jonah Markowitz,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 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
Noun
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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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Now comes President Donald Trump with his blunderbuss actions that weaken or threaten to weaken the press across the board, perplexing us all who are paying attention.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025
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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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Rund then became engaged to Doug Rund, the brother of her late husband Greg Rund, who died in Fallujah from small arms fire, according to media reports.—
Greg Norman,
Fox News,
17 Mar. 2025
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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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