five

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Recent Examples of five LaPour was the preseason Big 12 Pitcher of the Year and got his season off to a strong start against Vanderbilt, giving up two runs off fives hits in five innings of work with five strikeouts. Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Feb. 2026 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 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
  • Unfortunately, any of the giant armada of smaller objects tens of meters wide is still large enough to annihilate Beijing, Lagos, or New York – objects such as the one that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013 – and those are far harder to detect.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 10 May 2026
  • Public school enrollment has dropped by tens of thousands of students since 2020, with the younger grades among the slowest to recover.
    Tina Dello Russo, Boston Herald, 10 May 2026
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
  • My aunt and uncle, who live in Santa Fe—home to the International Folk Art Market, one of the largest such festivals in the world (the next one is July 9-12)—are devoted flea-market pickers and collectors of antique oddities.
    Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 15 May 2026
  • Mahomes going against Bills quarterback Josh Allen always makes for must-watch TV, and this one will have added spectacle as a Thanksgiving night game played in the Bills’ brand-new Highmark Stadium.
    Jesse Newell, New York Times, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • So, instead of having a destroyer or frigate-class asset on station, China could send dozens or hundreds of cheap, autonomous drones instead.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 16 May 2026
  • Europe’s leading nations possess hundreds of pro clubs connected to youth development systems.
    Clemente Lisi, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026

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“Five.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/five. Accessed 18 May. 2026.

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