half a dozen

idiom

: six
half a dozen eggs

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The Nora restaurant employs half a dozen pastry chefs who bake soft pretzels for the restaurant's most popular appetizer, the pretzels with cheese dip. Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 2 July 2025 Now, the bakery produces half a dozen varieties that resemble pears, red and green apples, oranges, raspberries and mangoes. Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2025 If one health tracker is good for you, theoretically, half a dozen should be great. Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 26 June 2025 In about half a dozen large states where county governments administer federal safety net programs, the costs of training caseworkers on the new verification protocols could trickle from states to counties. ProPublica, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for half a dozen

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“Half a dozen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/half%20a%20dozen. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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