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Recent Examples of twenty-two
Saft works for a flat rate, beginning at twenty-two thousand dollars for a one-bedroom apartment.
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Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Brown’s group of twenty-two men, including five Black people, sought to inspire a massive slave rebellion in the region.
—Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
About half—twenty-two faculty and ten staff—accepted the offer, and the school went ahead with layoffs, despite union protests.
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Sep. 2025
Keisha Veneta, mom of six children ages nine to twenty-two and founder of a wellness company from Douglasville, Georgia, credits breastfeeding all six of her children as one of the top reasons why her children rarely get sick.
—Yolande Clark-Jackson, Parents, 29 Aug. 2025
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Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Brown’s group of twenty-two men, including five Black people, sought to inspire a massive slave rebellion in the region.
—Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
About half—twenty-two faculty and ten staff—accepted the offer, and the school went ahead with layoffs, despite union protests.
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Sep. 2025
Keisha Veneta, mom of six children ages nine to twenty-two and founder of a wellness company from Douglasville, Georgia, credits breastfeeding all six of her children as one of the top reasons why her children rarely get sick.
—Yolande Clark-Jackson, Parents, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
Noun
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That’s forty-five fewer minutes than the CDC’s daily recommendation for American adults, yet their metabolic health is fantastic.—
Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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The number of displaced people kept increasing until, one day in November, our home had become a refuge for over forty-five relatives, all sharing our meals.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Archaeologists in Scotland have excavated over 100 weapon projectiles, including cannon shot and lead musket balls from one of the country’s most famous battlefields.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
30 Oct. 2025
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That is enough charge for as many as 228 million musket shots, far more shots than there were people in all of sub-Saharan Africa.—
Clifton Crais,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Facing second-and-5 from the shotgun, Patrick Mahomes looked for Noah Gray on a crosser.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
28 Oct. 2025
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Dawson said that every other team that runs their offense primarily out of the shotgun has a similar run-game scheme and philosophy.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
27 Oct. 2025
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Researchers recently found medieval cannonballs from culverins, an early form of cannon, that were most likely used by Vlad the Impaler, during his bloody battle in 1461 with the Ottoman Turks.—
Fox News,
Fox News,
5 Aug. 2019
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The flintlock coughed a lot of smoke, but Zutterman heard the 270-grain roundball smack the buck.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
2 Oct. 2025
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The flintlock pistol that Torres is given by the Yautja to fight his fellow prisoners is known by Predator fans as the Raphael Adolini 1715 pistol for an engraved plate that says just that.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
13 June 2025
Noun
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Guns are a part of American life, and have been since the very beginning, from the matchlock muskets arming the earliest colonies to the Colt revolvers and Winchester rifles of the Old West to the Glock handgun of today.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
7 Mar. 2018
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First-generation matchlock rifles, tanks, and aircraft had major limitations but improved over time.—
Paul Scharre,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Feb. 2018
Noun
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This tank is potentially equipped with a 130mm smoothbore gun.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
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With feverish speed and characteristic blunderbuss, President Donald Trump has given the federal government – and himself – unprecedented control over private economic decisions.—
Matthew Mitchell,
Twin Cities,
28 Sep. 2025
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Trump would also stop treating the Europeans as enemies with his blunderbuss tariffs.—
Trudy Rubin,
Mercury News,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Twenty-two.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twenty-two. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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