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Recent Examples of twenty-two
Only weeks earlier, the city had been shaken by the murder of Caroline Isenberg, a recent Harvard graduate and an aspiring actress who was attacked and dragged to the rooftop of her West End Avenue apartment building by Emmanuel Torres, the twenty-two-year-old son of its superintendent.
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
But the disaster on the mind of the twenty-two-year-old author is larger than a barroom brawl.
—Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
The treatise is organized as seven sections, each corresponding to a different set of games, and includes a number of optional variations, outlining twenty-two different games in total.
—JSTOR Daily, 26 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
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
But the disaster on the mind of the twenty-two-year-old author is larger than a barroom brawl.
—Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
The treatise is organized as seven sections, each corresponding to a different set of games, and includes a number of optional variations, outlining twenty-two different games in total.
—JSTOR Daily, 26 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
Noun
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The printing press, clocks, muskets — all these inventions changed humankind forever.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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The mind thrills to imagine a genderless prophet among the brocades and buckskin breeches of Revolutionary America, weirding out the normies, sticking a flower in the barrel of a musket, and goading the new nation to let its hair down—literally.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
Noun
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But hand the ball off from that same shotgun formation?—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
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There was also a bad fumble on a snap out of shotgun.—
David Aldridge,
New York Times,
5 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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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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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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
Noun
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Her mother started driving in from Hutto—about forty-five minutes away—every day.—
Lauren Hilgers,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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Her sister—several years older than Rosalinda, who is forty-five—appeared onscreen.—
Jordan Salama,
New Yorker,
30 Dec. 2025
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