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
  • Surf Ranch near Fresno has the holy grail of wave technology, offering 45-second rides and a barrel section – but a trip there is costly, catering to private groups that can pay tens of thousands of dollars.
    Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025
  • In the grand bazaar of global influence, the United Arab Emirates has spent billions—perhaps tens of billions—of dollars on what critics dismiss as a naked attempt to burnish their image through strategic investments in Western cultural institutions and athletic competitions.
    Bobby Ghosh, Time, 29 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
  • Both sides have also charged one another with mistreatment of detainees and failure to uphold the spirit of the ceasefire deal.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The compromises were not, in the end, ones that constituted red lines.
    Kerry Brown, Time, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The posts only displayed a few users’ comments despite hundreds of messages.
    Chris Lau, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • That one person is supposed to deliver a company’s entire Net Zero transition, wrangle data from hundreds of suppliers, meet evolving regulations, educate colleagues, and somehow keep everyone motivated.
    Gus Bartholomew, Sourcing Journal, 3 Nov. 2025

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