five

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Recent Examples of five In 153 minutes together at five-on-five, Bedard and Hall have outscored opponents 9-8. Mark Lazerus, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024 At five-on-five, Zuccarello was on the ice for 25 shot attempts against versus 11 for, Boldy 23 shot attempts against versus 10 for and Rossi 25 shot attempts against versus 10 for. Michael Russo, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024 In the last four games at five-on-five, Drysdale has been on the ice for seven Flyers goals and none against. Kevin Kurz, The Athletic, 15 Dec. 2024 The five who were euthanized Wednesday also were quarter horses. John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for five
Recent Examples of Synonyms for five
Noun
  • Of course, Microsoft and Google are also spending tens of billions of dollars in cap ex to build out their AI infrastructure.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 30 June 2025
  • An assessment of tens of thousands of adults in nearly thirty countries showed an over-all decade-long drop in test scores for math and for reading comprehension.
    Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • And then the, the like twos, like the little numbers above, like the, exponential thing is like survivalism and ability to be vulnerable.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 7 May 2025
  • Their effective field-goal percentage, a metric that accounts for threes being worth more than twos, never has been 50% against Minnesota.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • After all, no one likes to feel rushed or on the spot.
    Colleen Batchelder, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Check out this one that kills germs and is great for use in hospitals, and this one formulated with living cyanobacteria to produce oxygen and capture carbon dioxide.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • His overseas average in New Zealand, South Africa, Australia and England comes to just under 26 with two fifties in 11 Tests.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • Carol Sutton Lewis: In the late fifties, scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission were finding new information about a radioactive isotope called Strontium 90.
    Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Many of the Pulse shooting victims were in their twenties, some in their late teens, just babies.
    Marcos Gonsalez, Time, 12 June 2025
  • The youngest are in their twenties and the oldest are in their seventies.
    Claire Healy, Miami Herald, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • Landgraf has already spent hundreds of dollars on tariffs for dresses that brides had ordered before Trump took office.
    Alina Selyukh, NPR, 29 June 2025
  • On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of mourners gathered in Tehran for the state funerals of top military commanders, nuclear scientists, and women and children killed in Israeli attacks.
    CBS News, CBS News, 29 June 2025

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