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or .45
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Recent Examples of forty-five
When the battery’s completely flat, this increases to two hours and forty-five minutes.
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Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Catwoman robbed a few banks, but her biggest crimes were falling in love with a man with a fatal allergy to commitment, and being forty-five.
—Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
But war crimes prosecutors and journalists found that of forty-five Serbs who died in Kravica, thirty-five were soldiers, including five who were killed after being taken prisoner.
—David Rohde, NBC news, 21 July 2025
There’s no bad time to visit here, located forty-five minutes north of Chicago, but the most charming season is autumn.
—Outside Online, 28 May 2025
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Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Catwoman robbed a few banks, but her biggest crimes were falling in love with a man with a fatal allergy to commitment, and being forty-five.
—Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
But war crimes prosecutors and journalists found that of forty-five Serbs who died in Kravica, thirty-five were soldiers, including five who were killed after being taken prisoner.
—David Rohde, NBC news, 21 July 2025
There’s no bad time to visit here, located forty-five minutes north of Chicago, but the most charming season is autumn.
—Outside Online, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for forty-five
Noun
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Federal partners including the FBI and NCIS will assist with digital forensics and evidence collection; prosecutors will decide whether any third parties, including caregivers, could face charges related to firearm access as the ownership and access to the revolver remain under investigation.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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The sheriff's office said the suspect was armed with a revolver handgun.—
Alex Stone,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
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Federal agents executed a search warrant at her home in Virginia and found three 9mm pistols, including one inside a purse that also contained Perkins’ photo identification.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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My thoughts, instead of feeling like they were being released via machine gun, felt like they were launched from an old-timey pistol shot underwater, the propulsion forcibly slowed.—
P.E. Moskowitz
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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And at Evergreen High School in Colorado, two students were wounded by a classmate wielding a handgun, who then fatally shot himself.—
John Feinblatt,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Hundreds of police responded to the shooting, which included a student allegedly wielding a handgun, Kelley said in a news briefing.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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One hundred and fifty-nine years ago, a 26-year-old white supremacist and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth pointed a .44 caliber derringer pistol at the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head and squeezed the trigger.—
Brian Matthew Jordan,
National Review,
14 Apr. 2024
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In 1976, after wrecking his Rolls-Royce in a drunk-driving accident, he was arrested, intoxicated, with a loaded derringer on the grounds of Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate.—
Chris Morris,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2022
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The search turned up additional drugs, drug paraphernalia, and a zip gun.—
cleveland,
cleveland,
27 Jan. 2022
Noun
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About half—twenty-two faculty and ten staff—accepted the offer, and the school went ahead with layoffs, despite union protests.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
3 Sep. 2025
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While playing theatres across the country, Carson had worked with a young trumpeter named Doc Severinsen, who had been hired as an NBC studio musician at twenty-two and played lead in Henderson’s orchestra when Allen’s show first aired.—
Chris Almeida,
New Yorker,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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There were four Elvises—two in fading black and white, two in lurid colour—all aiming a six-gun straight at her.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
30 Aug. 2023
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Its big selling feature is a revolver-like cylinder that spins and snicks along on precision bearings, just like the cylinder of a six-shooter.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
11 June 2025
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Richard’s odds are lousier than Reacher’s were when Beck forced Reacher to play because this revolver is a five-shot model instead of a six-shooter.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Forty-five.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forty-five. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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