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
  • But there have been signs that Kim has spent months preparing for a major parade in the capital Pyongyang, potentially at night and involving tens of thousands of people, according to the South Korean military.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Wavytalk's Thermal Brush is the star of tens of thousands of videos highlighting its ability to deliver a solid blowout on any hair type.
    Lily Wohlner, Allure, 8 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
  • Bird hit Young on another long pass, this one going for 72 yards, setting up Adarion Nettles’ short touchdown run.
    Jordan Neal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Both those songs have stream counts in the multiple billions, so perhaps this one will also prove to be catnip on DSPs.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • With hundreds of birthday and pink balloons in hand, Keiairra's friends and family gathered across the street from Prime Social to share memories and offer prayers at a balloon release memorial organized by Keiairra's twin sister, Keianna Travis.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • These concerns stem from high levels of speculative investment—totaling hundreds of billions of dollars—in artificial intelligence with few manifest payoffs, as well as the market’s top-heavy structure, with significant value concentrated in a handful of AI-bullish tech stocks.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025

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