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Recent Examples of two Before that, Clifford, who didn’t take two-minute snaps with the twos on Tuesday, marched the ball downfield nicely and had a big completion to tight end Ben Sims down the seam a la Pratt’s completion to Sims down the seam in two-minute on Tuesday. Matt Schneidman, The Athletic, 14 Aug. 2024 In the bit, Maya Rudolph’s Harris and Andy Samberg’s Doug Emhoff fretted over the two’s friendliness. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2024 Some of the notable attendees include Lori Harvey, model Alton Mason (both pictured above), Academy Award winner Natalie Portman, designer Riccardo Tisci, actress Laura Harrier, and artist Maya Margarita who was on the ones and twos, pictured below. Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 1 Oct. 2024 That piece is a polyrhythm-palooza — threes on twos, twos on threes, three-counts and two-counts alternating. Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for two 
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Noun
  • Three years ago, no one would have predicted that a ragtag group of NFL players would put out an album of music that didn’t just break into the Billboard charts but actually sounded good.
    Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Constantly distracted by an influx of fresh information, Leibniz was wont to switch attention to a new task while the old ones were still pending.
    Anthony Gottlieb, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The city is set to host six matches – a massive event that will draw tens of thousands of spectators from around the world.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 13 Jan. 2025
  • More than thirty years after Voinovich and the bishops proposed vouchers as a solution for underprivileged children in a single city, public subsidies for private-school tuition were now universal in Ohio, covering tens of thousands of families.
    Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The intrigue: Both Raleigh and Durham had similar listening habits, with nearly identical top fives — though Durham left a spot for Ye, the controversial rapper and producer formerly known as Kanye West, and Raleigh preferred Morgan Wallen.
    Zachery Eanes, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • Across from me was Jack, a vegan chef in his fifties from California who lived in Zurich.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Remy’s other best buddy is Armand, who is in his fifties.
    Rachel Kushner, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Along with Steward, Prospect Medical has been one focus of an ongoing CBS News investigation revealing how private equity investors have siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars from community hospitals with devastating public health consequences.
    Michael Kaplan, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Piper has gone through hundreds of different medical surgeries since she was attacked, in an incident orchestrated by her ex-boyfriend in 2008.
    Caroline Frost, Deadline, 12 Jan. 2025

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“Two.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/two. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.

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