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Recent Examples of five
Kit Kats and Snickers round out the top five, taking fourth and fifth place respectively.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for five
Noun
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French revolutionaries sought to remake their society, executing tens of thousands of those who stood in their way.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Spain and Italy could be next There are tens of thousands of troops operating elsewhere in Europe beyond Germany—many deployed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—and these troops in other countries could be the next to leave the region.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
3 May 2026
Noun
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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
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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
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Any realistic future, extrapolated from the present, will be a scary one, reflecting back to us our own warranted, present-tense vigilance.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
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No, especially when no one asked.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
7 May 2026
Noun
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On March 15th, while Hitler spoke from a palace balcony to hundreds of thousands of ecstatic Austrians, Heidi’s father planned escapes for his family.—
Nicholas Dawidoff,
New Yorker,
10 May 2026
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The team came up with the present version after two years and five prototypes plus community feedback from hundreds of photographers with the same issues.—
Shirl Leigh
May 09,
New Atlas,
9 May 2026
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“Five.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/five. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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