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Recent Examples of forty-five
One hundred forty-five years later, watching privileged men scream and rant while hoarding power, opportunities and food over others feels like the United States has remained stagnant.
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
The number of displaced people kept increasing until, one day in November, our home had become a refuge for over forty-five relatives, all sharing our meals.
—Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
On September 23, 1947, forty-five members of the American film industry were subpoenaed by HUAC to prove their loyalty to the United States.
—Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
At forty-five years old, Shane was fit and healthy.
—John J. Lennon, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
The number of displaced people kept increasing until, one day in November, our home had become a refuge for over forty-five relatives, all sharing our meals.
—Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
On September 23, 1947, forty-five members of the American film industry were subpoenaed by HUAC to prove their loyalty to the United States.
—Chris Yogerst, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
At forty-five years old, Shane was fit and healthy.
—John J. Lennon, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for forty-five
Noun
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The victim shot Thomas in the hip and Mouton in the face with a revolver, before being killed by gunfire, the outlet reported.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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The camera recorded him finding the benefit card in a shoebox in the living room and placing it next to the revolver once the safe was opened in a back bedroom, prosecutors said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
21 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Presumably that meant plastic pistols were nonstarters.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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One video appears to show a Border Patrol officer removing a pistol from Pretti’s waistband after he had been pinned to the ground by other agents.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
27 Jan. 2026
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The video also showed that Pretti’s handgun had been removed from its holster by an officer seconds before he was pinned down and shot multiple times, including in his back.—
Michael Williams,
CNN Money,
28 Jan. 2026
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Trump had also commented on Pretti’s handgun hours earlier when departing the White House.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
28 Jan. 2026
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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
Noun
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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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Stafford then made one of his best throws of the season, a sidearm rope while falling backward to Davante Adams along the sideline.—
Nate Atkins,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2026
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Bystander footage showed an agent drawing his sidearm and firing at 37-year-od Renee Nicole Macklin Good after trying to prevent her from driving away in her SUV.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The handgun, which was introduced in 1935 after Prohibition, is a six-shooter revolver that fires rounds at a high velocity.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
28 Nov. 2025
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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
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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