five

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Recent Examples of five In 153 minutes together at five-on-five, Bedard and Hall have outscored opponents 9-8. Mark Lazerus, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024 At five-on-five, Zuccarello was on the ice for 25 shot attempts against versus 11 for, Boldy 23 shot attempts against versus 10 for and Rossi 25 shot attempts against versus 10 for. Michael Russo, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024 In the last four games at five-on-five, Drysdale has been on the ice for seven Flyers goals and none against. Kevin Kurz, The Athletic, 15 Dec. 2024 The five who were euthanized Wednesday also were quarter horses. John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for five
Recent Examples of Synonyms for five
Noun
  • Mamdani’s army of some 42,000 unpaid volunteers are managed by 14 full-time campaign staffers who have for months been getting paid tens of thousands of dollars for that work.
    Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 18 June 2025
  • The homes housed unmarried pregnant women as well as tens of thousands of orphans, according to The Associated Press.
    Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • And then the, the like twos, like the little numbers above, like the, exponential thing is like survivalism and ability to be vulnerable.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 7 May 2025
  • Their effective field-goal percentage, a metric that accounts for threes being worth more than twos, never has been 50% against Minnesota.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But MacDonough found that provision also out of order, as well as one that would have prevented undocumented migrants from receiving assistance under the program.
    Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 23 June 2025
  • After all, no one likes to feel rushed or on the spot.
    Colleen Batchelder, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • His overseas average in New Zealand, South Africa, Australia and England comes to just under 26 with two fifties in 11 Tests.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • Carol Sutton Lewis: In the late fifties, scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission were finding new information about a radioactive isotope called Strontium 90.
    Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Many of the Pulse shooting victims were in their twenties, some in their late teens, just babies.
    Marcos Gonsalez, Time, 12 June 2025
  • The youngest are in their twenties and the oldest are in their seventies.
    Claire Healy, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Congressman Tim Moore actively traded around Liberation Day Moore, a Republican, then failed to properly disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in purchases and sales as markets dropped and then popped following the president’s April 2 tariff announcement.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 17 June 2025
  • Hopes for a new $600-per-child state income tax credit aimed at hundreds of thousands of households eventually became a flat $250 payment — and only to families making about $67,000 per year or less.
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2025

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“Five.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/five. Accessed 29 Jun. 2025.

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