Thesaurus results for TWENTY-TWO

twenty-two

noun

variants or .22

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as in musket

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Recent Examples of twenty-two Since 1988, the Israeli government has issued more than twenty-two thousand demolition orders, according to its own data, with around a thousand issued annually in recent years. —

Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026 In twenty-two minutes, the digital clock in the kitchen would gently flip to Sunday morning and this dinner would spill into the start of a new day, the kind of shift Nina used to think signaled a wildly successful evening. —

Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026 Kiszko’s mother, Charlotte Kiszko, spent more than a decade campaigning for her son, who died twenty-two months after his release from prison. —

K.j. Yossman, Variety, 17 Feb. 2026 This child would be number twenty-two at the orphanage. —

Danielle Parker, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for twenty-two

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Instead of killing him, the musket ball to the back paralyzed Captain Cunningham from the waist down.

— Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026
This clandestine supply chain eventually provided thousands of muskets, field artillery and millions of pounds of gunpowder that made possible the 1777 victory at Saratoga and France’s subsequent formal alliance.

— Christopher Magra, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2026