two

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Recent Examples of two The Greek Freak has ditched the three for more brute-force twos, and the Knicks — like most teams — had a tough time stopping his force on Friday. Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2025 Sometimes there are individual wins, sometimes a group wins, occasionally there are top twos. Barry Levitt, Vulture, 12 May 2025 People came in twos and threes to the intersection, all asking what had happened in English and Spanish. Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2025 That’s because the Heat shot just 16 of 42 (38.1 percent) on two-point shots Saturday after shooting 26 of 36 (72.2 percent) on twos in Game 2. Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 26 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for two
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Noun
  • But letting this area function as an unregulated encampment helps no one — not the unhoused, the community or the fragile bay ecosystem.
    U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2025
  • Urban Egg, Fort Worth Urban Egg, 2828 North Tarrant Parkway one door west of Mister O1, is yet another better-breakfast Colorado chain, this one from Colorado Springs.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Of course, Microsoft and Google are also spending tens of billions of dollars in cap ex to build out their AI infrastructure.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 30 June 2025
  • An assessment of tens of thousands of adults in nearly thirty countries showed an over-all decade-long drop in test scores for math and for reading comprehension.
    Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • The Sabres had a 16-10 advantage in scoring chances with him on the ice at five-on-five.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The team has managed to do that at five-on-five, which has helped compensate for a somewhat underwhelming power play.
    Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • His overseas average in New Zealand, South Africa, Australia and England comes to just under 26 with two fifties in 11 Tests.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • Carol Sutton Lewis: In the late fifties, scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission were finding new information about a radioactive isotope called Strontium 90.
    Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Landgraf has already spent hundreds of dollars on tariffs for dresses that brides had ordered before Trump took office.
    Alina Selyukh, NPR, 29 June 2025
  • On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of mourners gathered in Tehran for the state funerals of top military commanders, nuclear scientists, and women and children killed in Israeli attacks.
    CBS News, CBS News, 29 June 2025

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