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fives

noun

plural of five

as in tens

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Recent Examples of fives 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

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The library, citing the toys' age and their talent in attracting tens of thousands of visitors a year, wouldn't budge, Brandreth said.

— STEVE HENDRIX THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
Blacksmith instead buys its own machines, tens of thousands of them, according to Jayaprakash, and installs them in data centers around the world.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of tens

Noun

In the Bucha district, one woman was killed and 21 people were wounded, eight of them children, while hundreds of buildings were damaged, according to police.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
Their contracts can run hundreds of pages, making harmful terms easy to bury.

— Emma Witman, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of hundreds

Noun

The increase also reflects a few additional states that expanded their early voting opportunities and ones that made more of their data available since the last midterms.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
Beginning January 2027, Ford Foundation staff will shift to three temporary units to maintain its existing grants while simultaneously transitioning new ones.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of ones

Noun

Spot charter rates for tankers have soared into the hundreds of thousands of dollars a day, while the ship-to-ship transfers can take several days.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
The film even spawned a three-film franchise, with the entire trilogy eventually pulling in over one billion dollars in box office bucks.

— Emily Maskell, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2026

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