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or .45
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Recent Examples of forty-five
At forty-five years old, Shane was fit and healthy.
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John J. Lennon, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
The doctor may be exhausted from lack of sleep, or distraught after having performed CPR on a baby for forty-five minutes.
—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
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John J. Lennon, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
The doctor may be exhausted from lack of sleep, or distraught after having performed CPR on a baby for forty-five minutes.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for forty-five
Noun
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Russian roulette is a deadly game involving a single bullet placed into a revolver.—
Mike Stunson,
Kansas City Star,
6 Oct. 2025
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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
Noun
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The driver’s side passenger then fires shots from a pistol at Bass-Moody, fatally striking her in the neck, according to police.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
15 Oct. 2025
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The devices can enable pistols to fire at rates of up to 1,200 rounds per minute, according to gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Like the cumbersome, omnipresent sheriff's duty belt, complete with handgun, handcuffs and the works.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
16 Oct. 2025
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Hernandez Santana was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of firing a 9 mm handgun within a school zone, possessing a firearm within a school zone and willfully or maliciously interfering with or causing interference to any radio communications of any station in the September shooting.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
16 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
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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This doesn’t include the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which make up the remaining twenty-two per cent.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
16 Oct. 2025
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Brown’s group of twenty-two men, including five Black people, sought to inspire a massive slave rebellion in the region.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Oct. 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
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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