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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.
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Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
But every time the Heat closed to within six or seven early in the fourth quarter, the Cavs responded with threes - including one by Donovan Mitchell (who opened 9 for 10 on twos but 0 for 7 on threes), Strus and Jerome, who made 5 of 8 threes in his first playoff game.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2025
But in Chicago and other cities, there are quieter operations underway that raise similar legal questions as federal agents pick up people in ones, twos and threes.
—Vernal Coleman, ProPublica, 25 Mar. 2025
His cap hit increases this year in the fourth year of his rookie deal, and paying more money for whatever that effort was on Saturday won’t fly on cutdown day.
QB Jake Browning and the entire second-team offense
Once Burrow completed his touchdown drive, Browning and the twos took over.
—Paul Dehner Jr., The Athletic, 10 Aug. 2024
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Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
But every time the Heat closed to within six or seven early in the fourth quarter, the Cavs responded with threes - including one by Donovan Mitchell (who opened 9 for 10 on twos but 0 for 7 on threes), Strus and Jerome, who made 5 of 8 threes in his first playoff game.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2025
But in Chicago and other cities, there are quieter operations underway that raise similar legal questions as federal agents pick up people in ones, twos and threes.
—Vernal Coleman, ProPublica, 25 Mar. 2025
His cap hit increases this year in the fourth year of his rookie deal, and paying more money for whatever that effort was on Saturday won’t fly on cutdown day.
QB Jake Browning and the entire second-team offense
Once Burrow completed his touchdown drive, Browning and the twos took over.
—Paul Dehner Jr., The Athletic, 10 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for two
Noun
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There’s a new kind of public-land group gaining momentum out West, and this one is wading unapologetically into the political arena.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
3 Apr. 2026
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Yasaka, the casual all day dining emphasizing wood fire and charcoal grilling, and ten person French omakase kappo counter Ren (the one to book).—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Salaries running into the tens of millions are not exclusive to soccer, though.—
Dan Sheldon,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2026
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But, during the regular season, teams without a hope of making the playoffs started scrambling to detonate their records to get a shot at a future star player—and some teams, most notably the 76ers of the twenty-tens, engaged in a long process of strategic losing in order to stockpile picks.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In 2024-25, in 538 minutes solo at five-on-five, Nugent-Hopkins delivered 45 percent of the goal share.—
Allan Mitchell,
New York Times,
25 Mar. 2026
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LaPour was the preseason Big 12 Pitcher of the Year and got his season off to a strong start against Vanderbilt, giving up two runs off fives hits in five innings of work with five strikeouts.—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But even the significant pressure of hundreds, then thousands, of criminal defendants being released or their cases dropped did little to move the needle on a permanent solution to the problem.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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In 2024, the Pentagon released hundreds of reports of unidentified and unexplained aerial phenomena.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Two.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/two. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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