two

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Recent Examples of two There were only 5,000 copies up for grabs with each one wrapped in its own exclusive jacket, no two covers alike. Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025 And then the, the like twos, like the little numbers above, like the, exponential thing is like survivalism and ability to be vulnerable. Outside Online, 7 May 2025 Their effective field-goal percentage, a metric that accounts for threes being worth more than twos, never has been 50% against Minnesota. Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025 Detainees were then placed by twos in cells, still soaked in the water, without mattresses or blankets. Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 7 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for two
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Noun
  • And no one wants to be reduced to a nameless fulfillment partner in someone else’s ecosystem.
    Jason Goldberg, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Like so many families, and not just Irish ones, United brought him closer to his relatives.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • For months, federal investigators have been examining how tens of millions of dollars has been distributed among Hartford nonprofits, some of which play a vital role across the city’s economically distressed north side.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 17 Aug. 2025
  • For generations, Social Security, which celebrated its 90th anniversary on August 14, has formed the bedrock of retirement income for tens of millions of Americans, and also pays out benefits to disabled people and survivors of deceased workers.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Jackson’s contract is roughly market value for backup centers, perhaps even on the lower end for one of the better reserve fives in the league.
    Tony East, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • This is not something that people cared about as much in the fifties.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
  • As many as three-quarters of all teen-agers now wear braces at some point—up from thirty per cent in the eighties and five per cent in the fifties.
    Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • The Trump administration has pursued a restrictive immigration policy that features the detention of undocumented immigrants at work sites and the revocation of Temporary Protected Status – a form of temporary legal status – for hundreds of thousands of immigrants.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The science center delivers STEM learning experiences to hundreds of thousands of school students, and serves as a hub for community events, traveling exhibitions, and science programming.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2025

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“Two.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/two. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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