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Recent Examples of twenty-two
Trey and Moshe were twenty-four and had a full ride to Meharry; Mack was twenty-two and driving trucks.
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Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
On July 9, the Iraqi government released a list of twenty-two people whose remains had been identified nearly 11 years after ISIS militants carried out genocide against the Yazidi community, a religious minority in Northern Iraq.
—Nadia Murad, Time, 13 Aug. 2025
Darwin notes that the Weald Basin is about a thousand feet deep and twenty-two miles wide.
—Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
In addition, another six future general officers could be found among the twenty-two Royal Artillery officers in the column.
—/ Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
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Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
On July 9, the Iraqi government released a list of twenty-two people whose remains had been identified nearly 11 years after ISIS militants carried out genocide against the Yazidi community, a religious minority in Northern Iraq.
—Nadia Murad, Time, 13 Aug. 2025
Darwin notes that the Weald Basin is about a thousand feet deep and twenty-two miles wide.
—Lewis Hyde, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
In addition, another six future general officers could be found among the twenty-two Royal Artillery officers in the column.
—/ Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
Noun
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The equivalent sale in 2023 brought in more than two hundred million dollars and was led by a Wassily Kandinsky landscape that sold for forty-five million.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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When the battery’s completely flat, this increases to two hours and forty-five minutes.—
Matthew MacConnell,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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The framers of the U.S. Constitution lived in an age of muskets and messengers, when war moved slowly and left time for Congress and the president to confer.—
Scott Neuman,
NPR,
23 June 2025
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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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Police said Westman is believed to have used three guns in the attack -- a rifle, a shotgun and a handgun -- firing through the church's windows as young students had gathered for morning mass.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Sep. 2025
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Westman was armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol, according to police, who said the three guns were legally purchased.—
Janelle Griffith,
People.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Researchers recently found medieval cannonballs from culverins, an early form of cannon, that were most likely used by Vlad the Impaler, during his bloody battle in 1461 with the Ottoman Turks.—
Fox News,
Fox News,
5 Aug. 2019
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
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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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First-generation matchlock rifles, tanks, and aircraft had major limitations but improved over time.—
Paul Scharre,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Feb. 2018
Noun
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This tank is potentially equipped with a 130mm smoothbore gun.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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Trump would also stop treating the Europeans as enemies with his blunderbuss tariffs.—
Trudy Rubin,
Mercury News,
15 Aug. 2025
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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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“Twenty-two.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twenty-two. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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