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Recent Examples of twenty-two
In addition, another six future general officers could be found among the twenty-two Royal Artillery officers in the column.
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/ Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
Twenty-three people were transported to local area hospitals after the incident, with twenty-two in stable condition after sustaining minor injuries.
—Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 8 June 2025
The closures left providers in twenty-two states—including the nation’s three largest cities—without a Head Start point of contact.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
Néstor won the 2003 election with only twenty-two per cent of the vote after Menem withdrew from the race.
—Graciela Mochkofsky, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
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/ Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
Twenty-three people were transported to local area hospitals after the incident, with twenty-two in stable condition after sustaining minor injuries.
—Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 8 June 2025
The closures left providers in twenty-two states—including the nation’s three largest cities—without a Head Start point of contact.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
Néstor won the 2003 election with only twenty-two per cent of the vote after Menem withdrew from the race.
—Graciela Mochkofsky, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
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In all, Wyant caught a hundred and forty-five pounds of fish—Spanish mackerel, tuna, bonito, and mahi-mahi.—
Adam Iscoe,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Catwoman robbed a few banks, but her biggest crimes were falling in love with a man with a fatal allergy to commitment, and being forty-five.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 July 2025
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Beretta traces its history to 1526, when Bartolomeo Beretta (d. 1565), a rifle barrel maker in the small northern Italian town of Gardone, sold 185 arquebus barrels—a handheld long gun and a forerunner to the modern rifle—to the Republic of Venice.—
Giacomo Tognini,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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The worshipers insisted on congregating to pray at the crucifix in the local church and threatened to shoot with an arquebus – a long gun used during the Renaissance period – anyone who got in their way.—
Hannah Marcus,
The Conversation,
25 Sep. 2020
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On April 19, 1775, the crack of a musket marked the first official command for colonists to fire upon the red-coated army of Britain’s King George III.—
Lisa Meyers McClintick,
USA Today,
21 June 2025
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Depictions of Warren tend to show him in military uniform, with a sword or a musket.—
Eliza McGraw,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 June 2025
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And this slasher Santa Claus doesn't mess around, using an axe and a shotgun with deadly intention and also down for impaling people on deer antlers.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
26 July 2025
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Before his arrest, Vang’s son went to the home and secured a shotgun and two rifles.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
22 July 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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Although a gunshot from a flintlock pistol lasts only an eye blink, the sound is composed of numerous elements: the squeeze of the trigger, the strike of the firing mechanism against the flint, the ignition of the powder, the slug’s passage through the barrel, the report, the impact.—
Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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
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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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Many shared frustrations with blunderbuss antitrust enforcement, foot-dragging on Medicare approvals for life-saving drugs, regulation by litigation, or red tape.—
Sam Liccardo,
Mercury News,
15 July 2025
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And with the Trump administration taking a blunderbuss to anything that remotely resembles DEI, the mood across the entertainment industries is generally apprehensive.—
Zak Cheney-Rice,
Vulture,
2 June 2025
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Cambodian troops recorded themselves shooting down one such quadcopter drone with small arms fire.—
Sebastien Roblin,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Thursday’s clashes saw exchanges of small arms and rocket fire between Thailand – a United States treaty ally – and its smaller neighbor Cambodia.—
Kocha Olarn,
CNN Money,
25 July 2025
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