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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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The school’s founders are accused of siphoning tens of millions of dollars into a private company between 2017 and 2021.—
Jennifer Palmer,
Oklahoma Watch,
9 Jan. 2026
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The strikes have left tens of thousands of people across the country without power or heating amid freezing winter temperatures.—
Kosta Gak,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 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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That Bezos up on stage bore a strong resemblance to the one who attended high school in Miami.—
Vinod Sreeharsha,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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But the photo editor on duty in the AP’s Saigon bureau the day it was taken in 1972, Carl Robinson, now says Út was not the one who took the celebrated photo.—
Maria Fontoura,
Rolling Stone,
7 Nov. 2025
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The same Georgia plant where Hyundai plans to test out Atlas was the site of a federal immigration raid last year that led to the arrests of hundreds of workers, including more than 300 South Korean citizens.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 Jan. 2026
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The regime eventually deployed the Basij paramilitary force to suppress hundreds of protesters.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN Money,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Five.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/five. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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