five

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Recent Examples of five Kit Kats and Snickers round out the top five, taking fourth and fifth place respectively. Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Sep. 2025 All five also contested last year's leadership election won by Ishiba. Satoshi Sugiyama, Reuters, 15 Sep. 2025 Jackson’s contract is roughly market value for backup centers, perhaps even on the lower end for one of the better reserve fives in the league. Tony East, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2025 Randle has started playing five-on-five, meaning his return from an injury that has kept him out for nine games is imminent. Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for five
Recent Examples of Synonyms for five
Noun
  • That kind of skeuomorphism—the design of a digital interface to resemble a physical one, by, for example, adding a faux-metal texture to a calculator app—has been out of fashion for more than a decade, ever since Apple moved away from it in the early twenty-tens.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The video, which has racked up tens of millions of views on social media, was widely interpreted as mocking the death of Kirk, who was assassinated by a shot through the neck last month.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • He is joined by six of his players — many more will join by half-time, arriving in ones and twos, shuffling over the teal concrete — and by assorted members of the Xavier clan, all wearing colourful training kit.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Like the ones will go against the ones, ones will go against the twos, so everybody basically gets to see everybody on the roster at some point on the field.
    Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Like no one’s at fault here, right?
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • All one needs to do is scan through copies of the Baltimore Afro-American, the weekly Black newspaper of record at the time, to understand.
    Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And the policies are projected to have far-ranging effects on most areas of business, including a potential loss of hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers in sectors like information and educational and health services.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • According to the indictment, LaSota possessed a cache of weapons, including a sniper rifle, various handguns, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Five.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/five. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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