two

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Recent Examples on the Web Threes are twos, and twos are ones in this spin-off Olympic sport, which features a basketball slightly smaller than the one used for five-on-five. Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 26 July 2024 Working in twos on a coffee truck gives prospective partners a chance for some alone time. Judy Berman, TIME, 31 July 2024 Perhaps everything will come in twos for Corbin Burnes now. Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2024 As a result, the government stopped issuing new twos for a period of time. Doc Louallen, The Arizona Republic, 26 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for two 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for two
Noun
  • Former President Donald Trump’s false claims about fraud in the 2020 election exposed the people who operate our elections to threats and harassment in the run-up to this one.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published.
    April Ehrlich, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • How Many Early Votes Have Been Cast? As of early November, tens of millions of Americans have already cast their ballots through early voting, which includes both mail-in and in-person votes.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The Justice Department wants a court-binding contract called a consent decree, which could cost the city tens of millions.
    Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • This chart week is just beginning, so Carpenter will claim her three top fives for the next few days.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The first attempts at Squads used military terms for the different roles — with majors looking over captains — and the students were grouped into twos and fives before Dent and his entourage finally settled on groups of three.
    Luis Melecio-Zambrano, The Mercury News, 13 May 2024
Noun
  • Two weeks later, the Office of His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III released an official statement explaining that Dorje Chang and his wife, Yuhua Wang, also in her fifties, died together at a Las Vegas residence.
    Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the share of people getting married for the first time in their forties and fifties quadrupled between 1990 and 2019.
    Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Today, hundreds of thousands of former SOCCCD students are employed in Orange County.
    Advertorial, Orange County Register, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Born in 1914, Randle was just a young girl when an angry mob of white residents destroyed Greenwood, the prosperous Black neighborhood known as Black Wall Street in 1921, killing hundreds of people and reducing 35 square blocks of thriving businesses to ashes.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 5 Nov. 2024

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“Two.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/two. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

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