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Recent Examples of twenty-two
Communists were also the most vigorous foes of fascism—except for twenty-two notorious months beginning in late August 1939, when the USSR signed a nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany.
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Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
Dozens were rushed to the facility’s clinic, where twenty-two were eventually pronounced dead.
—Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Three separate small apartments were created within the big house for the children, Christopher, Elizabeth, and Leslie, then twenty-two, twenty, and sixteen.
—Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 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
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Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
Dozens were rushed to the facility’s clinic, where twenty-two were eventually pronounced dead.
—Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Three separate small apartments were created within the big house for the children, Christopher, Elizabeth, and Leslie, then twenty-two, twenty, and sixteen.
—Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
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There is also pretty but not always energetic imagery filmed in different referenced parts of the current American wilderness — snow gathering in fields, mist rising above mountaintops — and never-energetic shots of re-enactors loading muskets or preparing for battle.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
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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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The next eight plays were runs as well, a mixture of shotgun and under-center snaps with Charbonnet and Ken Walker III, along with an AJ Barner tush push on third-and-1.—
Michael-Shawn Dugar,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
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Instead, the shotgun approach keeps SNL plugged into the political conversation in a way that suits a politician with zero chill or focus.—
Erik Adams,
The Atlantic,
9 Nov. 2025
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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
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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
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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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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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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
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