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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
Noun
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Ronald White of Milton, dressed in colonial attire, stood with reenactors firing replica muskets in the church’s graveyard following the service and said the anniversary carries personal meaning.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Mar. 2026
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Then the French started to standardize their muskets.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Lillian Bonsignore, the first former EMS responder ever picked to run the fire department, will join past and present firefighters and EMS members at Fort Totten in Queens to commemorate the shotgun wedding’s pearl anniversary on Monday.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
15 Mar. 2026
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Hands are stabbed, feet are liquidated, fingers are severed, bodies are impaled (at one point an entire butcher block of kitchen knives has to be used to subdue Todd), an ear and a nose are bitten off, shotgun holes are blown into faces, and prison rape is treated as a parlor game.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Smoke billowed from his flintlock and Rhoades didn’t see where the buck ran after the shot.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
28 Jan. 2026
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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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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
Noun
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This tank is potentially equipped with a 130mm smoothbore gun.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The birth of ‘gunpowder warfare’ can be traced back to the 15th century and the invention of the matchlock gun, the first mechanical firing device.—
Kamal Ahmed,
Fortune,
12 Mar. 2026
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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Under the leadership of Ho, who is being assisted by curators Che Kyongfa, Park Gahee, and Brian Kuan Wood, the Biennale will feature forty-five artists and collectives from twenty countries—the smallest cohort since its 1995 founding.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
16 Mar. 2026
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He had been locked inside for forty-five minutes when police entered the passageway, followed by Conrad, Wilkes, and Dial.—
James Verini,
New Yorker,
2 Mar. 2026
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“Twenty-two.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twenty-two. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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