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Recent Examples of twenty-two
Néstor won the 2003 election with only twenty-two per cent of the vote after Menem withdrew from the race.
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Graciela Mochkofsky, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
Most of the twenty-two hospitals in the north had come under direct attack, according to CNN.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
In 2024, twenty-two states raised the minimum wage for restaurant employees, led by California’s increase to $20 an hour, which is nearly three times the federal minimum of $7.25, further squeezing margins at restaurants.
—Shimite Obialo, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Austin quit the game at twenty, before a brief comeback years later; Hingis retired, for the first time, at twenty-two.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
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Graciela Mochkofsky, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
Most of the twenty-two hospitals in the north had come under direct attack, according to CNN.
—Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
In 2024, twenty-two states raised the minimum wage for restaurant employees, led by California’s increase to $20 an hour, which is nearly three times the federal minimum of $7.25, further squeezing margins at restaurants.
—Shimite Obialo, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Austin quit the game at twenty, before a brief comeback years later; Hingis retired, for the first time, at twenty-two.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
Noun
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About forty-five minutes later, a senior D.H.S. agent approached Baraka and ordered him to leave.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
18 June 2025
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There’s no bad time to visit here, located forty-five minutes north of Chicago, but the most charming season is autumn.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
28 May 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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On April 19, 1775, the crack of a musket marked the first official command for colonists to fire upon the red-coated army of Britain’s King George III.—
Lisa Meyers McClintick,
USA Today,
21 June 2025
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Depictions of Warren tend to show him in military uniform, with a sword or a musket.—
Eliza McGraw,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 June 2025
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His pregnant wife Suzanne Belcher, riding shotgun, jotted Love’s gems down on a notepad.—
Elias Leight,
Billboard,
18 June 2025
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Police said the man, armed with a shotgun and a pistol, acted alone.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
11 June 2025
Noun
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The flintlock pistol that Torres is given by the Yautja to fight his fellow prisoners is known by Predator fans as the Raphael Adolini 1715 pistol for an engraved plate that says just that.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
13 June 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
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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And with the Trump administration taking a blunderbuss to anything that remotely resembles DEI, the mood across the entertainment industries is generally apprehensive.—
Zak Cheney-Rice,
Vulture,
2 June 2025
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What the Supreme Court should not do is hand down a blunderbuss of a legal rule — one that could very well throw every public school in the country into turmoil — based on a half-baked legal theory constructed by lawyers who don’t even know if their clients’ rights were violated yet.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
15 Apr. 2025
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Other buyers in Asia such as Bangladesh and Myanmar have acquired armored vehicles, trainer aircraft, and small arms.—
Amir Daftari
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 June 2025
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In contrast, Ukraine, engaged in a war with Russia, received 40,000 small arms from the United States between January 2020 and April 2024 – an average of 9,000 per year.—
Sean Campbell,
The Conversation,
28 May 2025
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