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twenties

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plural of twenty

as in fifties

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As the school year started and drivers tiptoed into new routines or back into old ones a couple of theoretical bear traps snapped down this past Tuesday in Cobb County.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 9 Aug. 2026
Across a sample of 102 nations, Nordic ones (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland and Finland) come out as the most individualist.

— Mark Carey, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2026

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At the end of 2020, hundreds of hospitals were at full capacity, and more than 90% of ICU beds were occupied in a third of all hospitals.

— Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
As artificial intelligence fuels a new startup boom, debate for students over whether to spend years—and potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars—earning a degree or dropping out to chase the next billion-dollar unicorn has intensified.

— Preston Fore, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026

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At one point, the fires forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate — some have since returned to find treasured memories turned to ashes.

— Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
The popular Dearborn Homecoming Festival is returning to Ford Field Park this weekend, with tens of thousands of people expected to visit and even see musical guest Chance the Rapper.

— Heath Kalb, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of tens

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Teachers often spend hundreds of dollars of their own money before students ever walk through the door.

— Tori Mason, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
In an interview, Spano said the company now generates over a million dollars a day in revenue, employs roughly 3,000 people, and operates around fifty locations nationwide, with thousands of trucks and, by his estimate, millions of cones.

— Gustaf Lundberg Toresson, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

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