two

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Recent Examples of two Rick has dragged Chelsea to Thailand for a preposterous act of personal vengeance, and seems to be in a completely different show than the three blond girlfriends, who’ve known each other since childhood but spend most of their time drinking in twos while gossiping cruelly about the absent third. Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2025 After the draft of twos, the Browns absolutely could be back in the quarterback business next April. Zac Jackson, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025 He’s not cracked reps with the second team with Hill getting all the work when the twos take over. Paul Dehner Jr., The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024 The tactile quality of the characters was modeled after stop-motion, including animating mostly on twos (one image for every two frames) for rough movement. Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 31 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for two
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Noun
  • No one was exactly eager to hop back into the weight room, meeting room and practice field when the offseason program began that April.
    Matt Barrows, New York Times, 30 May 2025
  • No one is bigger than anyone else in the dressing room.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, tens of thousands of large bugs have descended on Great Smoky Mountains National Park along the North Carolina-Tennessee border, according to the National Park Service.
    Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 25 May 2025
  • Scores of other pending lawsuits represent potentially tens of millions more in liability exposure.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • The Sabres had a 16-10 advantage in scoring chances with him on the ice at five-on-five.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The team has managed to do that at five-on-five, which has helped compensate for a somewhat underwhelming power play.
    Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The prevalence of disability rises from less than 20% to nearly 40% between our twenties and our sixties Our fifties are a tipping point.
    Nancy Doyle, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • By her early fifties Gay was twice divorced, child-free and working as a program manager at FedEx in Memphis.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Rashad Shabazz, a historical cultural geographer at Arizona State University, helped bring hundreds of signs, posters and artwork from the protests to Phoenix in 2024.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 25 May 2025
  • On Thursday, the council approved a $14-billion annual budget that would cut police hiring in half, while sparing hundreds of other city workers from layoffs.
    David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2025

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