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or .45
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Recent Examples of forty-five
Spending forty-five minutes searching for parking on one day might be the reason that, on another, your husband finds a space near the hospital just in time to witness the birth of your child.
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The New Yorker, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
About forty-five minutes later, a senior D.H.S. agent approached Baraka and ordered him to leave.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 18 June 2025
There’s no bad time to visit here, located forty-five minutes north of Chicago, but the most charming season is autumn.
—Outside Online, 28 May 2025
If the department seems small, with just forty-five officers tasked with protecting more than twenty thousand residents, that’s because New Canaan has always been one of the safest towns in Connecticut.
—Rich Cohen, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2025
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The New Yorker, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
About forty-five minutes later, a senior D.H.S. agent approached Baraka and ordered him to leave.
—Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 18 June 2025
There’s no bad time to visit here, located forty-five minutes north of Chicago, but the most charming season is autumn.
—Outside Online, 28 May 2025
If the department seems small, with just forty-five officers tasked with protecting more than twenty thousand residents, that’s because New Canaan has always been one of the safest towns in Connecticut.
—Rich Cohen, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for forty-five
Noun
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Over the next 13 months, Berkowitz targeted a number of women and couples in secluded spots, using the same .44-caliber revolver in each attack.—
Chris Harris,
People.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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The gun, a reproduction 1873 single-action army revolver, fired a live round inadvertently loaded by Hannah Gutierrez, the production's weapons handler.—
REUTERS,
USA Today,
31 July 2025
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What had happened, according to Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, was that a man named Jalen Welch, 25, walked into the argument holding a pistol in a threatening manner and approached the shooter, described as a man from Oak Park.—
Andrea May Sahouri,
Freep.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The nephew had fallen asleep on the couch and was awakened by a man holding a pistol.—
Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Radford has been stationed at Fort Stewart since 2022, and the weapon used was his own handgun, according to Army officials.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
7 Aug. 2025
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Personal handgun used in shooting Radford used a personal handgun – not a military weapon – in the shooting, Lubas said.—
Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
6 Aug. 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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On July 9, the Iraqi government released a list of twenty-two people whose remains had been identified nearly 11 years after ISIS militants carried out genocide against the Yazidi community, a religious minority in Northern Iraq.—
Nadia Murad,
Time,
13 Aug. 2025
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Jena, at the age of twenty-two, rarely thought about the man in the moonlight and the spotted creature and the camel drowning.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Aug. 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
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Distraught to see his own family in great harm’s way, Finau used his sidearm to fire multiple shots into the ground, to grab the crowd’s attention and then bellow at them to clear out.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
10 Aug. 2025
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Jaheim Bell caught one touchdown on a nifty sidearm throw from Dobbs and undrafted rookie Gee Scott secured one of two targets.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
4 Aug. 2025
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Carrying personal firearms on base is typically prohibited by military regulations.—
Dakin Andone,
CNN Money,
7 Aug. 2025
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In April, Mangione was indicted on two counts of stalking, a firearms offense, and murder via use of a firearm.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
6 Aug. 2025
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