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Recent Examples of forty-five
The doctor may be exhausted from lack of sleep, or distraught after having performed CPR on a baby for forty-five minutes.
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Rachel Pearson, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Cuomo would capture the vast majority of both Adams' and Sliwa's current support and win a majority of voters over forty-five.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
When the battery’s completely flat, this increases to two hours and forty-five minutes.
—Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
But war crimes prosecutors and journalists found that of forty-five Serbs who died in Kravica, thirty-five were soldiers, including five who were killed after being taken prisoner.
—David Rohde, NBC news, 21 July 2025
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Rachel Pearson, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Cuomo would capture the vast majority of both Adams' and Sliwa's current support and win a majority of voters over forty-five.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
When the battery’s completely flat, this increases to two hours and forty-five minutes.
—Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
But war crimes prosecutors and journalists found that of forty-five Serbs who died in Kravica, thirty-five were soldiers, including five who were killed after being taken prisoner.
—David Rohde, NBC news, 21 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for forty-five
Noun
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That’s when, police believe, Flores allegedly went back inside, grabbed a revolver and fired toward the man, per the outlets.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
30 Sep. 2025
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While police have not mentioned a revolver being used in the shooting at Annunciation, the sight shook the store workers with years of experience who took pride in going the extra mile to make sure their guns didn’t fall into the wrong hands.—
Taylor Galgano,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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New Zealand has strict gun laws, which require an additional permit for possessing pistols specifically.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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Police said the investigation uncovered a series of videos, alleged to have been taken in Milpitas by the suspect or an acquaintance, showing a person repeatedly firing an semiautomatic pistol into the air and at a wall.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
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Officers used less lethal tools, but shot him with a firearm after Garcia produced a handgun.—
Elena Santa Cruz,
AZCentral.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Also in the video, Renye said, is a member of the church congregation running in the same direction as the officers with a handgun but Renye said the member did not fire his weapon.—
Kristen Jordan Shamus,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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One hundred and fifty-nine years ago, a 26-year-old white supremacist and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth pointed a .44 caliber derringer pistol at the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head and squeezed the trigger.—
Brian Matthew Jordan,
National Review,
14 Apr. 2024
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In 1976, after wrecking his Rolls-Royce in a drunk-driving accident, he was arrested, intoxicated, with a loaded derringer on the grounds of Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate.—
Chris Morris,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2022
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The search turned up additional drugs, drug paraphernalia, and a zip gun.—
cleveland,
cleveland,
27 Jan. 2022
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Like most large cities in China, Beijing—the national capital, with over twenty-two million inhabitants—suffered from the long business lockdown during the COVID-19 crisis.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Oct. 2025
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But this hardly jibes with the timing of the move or the fact that his show had been running for twenty-two years.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There were four Elvises—two in fading black and white, two in lurid colour—all aiming a six-gun straight at her.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
30 Aug. 2023
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Its big selling feature is a revolver-like cylinder that spins and snicks along on precision bearings, just like the cylinder of a six-shooter.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
11 June 2025
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Richard’s odds are lousier than Reacher’s were when Beck forced Reacher to play because this revolver is a five-shot model instead of a six-shooter.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Forty-five.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forty-five. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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