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Recent Examples of forty-five
But China has countered the Trump Administration’s tariffs of a hundred and forty-five per cent with tariffs of a hundred and twenty-five per cent, as of late April, on American goods.
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Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2025
Around forty-five million dollars, or sixteen per cent, of its money comes from the federal government, and is earmarked for maintenance and building operations.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2025
What that means—when Bunty might report to work, and what happens after forty-five days—went unsaid.
—Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
Eventually, Abbott would send forty-five thousand people to New York, most of them Venezuelans, along with another thirty-seven thousand people to Chicago, nineteen thousand to Denver, and twelve thousand to Washington.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2025
Around forty-five million dollars, or sixteen per cent, of its money comes from the federal government, and is earmarked for maintenance and building operations.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2025
What that means—when Bunty might report to work, and what happens after forty-five days—went unsaid.
—Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
Eventually, Abbott would send forty-five thousand people to New York, most of them Venezuelans, along with another thirty-seven thousand people to Chicago, nineteen thousand to Denver, and twelve thousand to Washington.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for forty-five
Noun
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The lawsuit stems from an incident on Oct. 21, 2021, when an old-fashioned revolver Alec Baldwin was handling went off.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
30 June 2025
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Police said that officers on the scene recovered a revolver from under Steven's body.—
Chris Spargo,
People.com,
16 June 2025
Noun
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In the car, officers found a safe, all of the children's passports as well as Jenny Boelter's, about $10,000 in cash, a revolver pistol in the glove box and another semi-automatic pistol in a cooler, the FBI said in the complaint.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
27 June 2025
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He was then stopped again by police in his hometown of Murfreesboro, where police took another pistol off him.—
Sophie Clark,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
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After he was shot, deputies found a Beretta PX4 Storm semi-automatic pellet gun, which is a replica of a .40 caliber handgun, near his body, according to authorities.—
Nathan Solis
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2025
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Caruthers tried to intervene when the suspect pulled out a handgun and shot him, police said.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
The Tennessean,
3 July 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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This victim’s vision seems weird and fraudulent when Priscilla casually color-coordinates derringer pistols with designer dresses.—
Armond White,
National Review,
3 Nov. 2023
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Darwin notes that the Weald Basin is about a thousand feet deep and twenty-two miles wide.—
Lewis Hyde,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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In addition, another six future general officers could be found among the twenty-two Royal Artillery officers in the column.—
/ CBS News,
CBS News,
13 June 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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So Lee would log on YouTube and search for sidearm pitchers.—
Cody Stavenhagen,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 2025
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Either him or the sidearm guy from Alabama, Carson Ozmer.—
Mitch Light,
New York Times,
15 June 2025
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Growing up around firearms The source familiar with the investigation, however, said that authorities learned Roley grew up with a family that had firearms and felt comfortable handling them.—
Mike Levine,
ABC News,
1 July 2025
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Biddle said a firearms expert was expected to testify that the gun was linked to two casings found at the shooting scene.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 June 2025
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