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Recent Examples of twenty-two
The deregulation push was a great success, with laws enacted in twenty-two states by 1925.
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 28 Jan. 2025
All twenty-two recommendations that cleared this seventy-five-per-cent threshold were presented in November to the Bend City Council, the county commissioners, and a body of formerly homeless young people called the Central Oregon Youth Action Board.
—Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2024
Today an international icon passed away: former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died at age 100 at his home in Plains, GA, after more than twenty-two (22) months in hospice.
—Steve Tengler, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
In the end, UnitedHealth paid a bitcoin ransom worth some twenty-two million dollars, and the system lurched back online.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 28 Jan. 2025
All twenty-two recommendations that cleared this seventy-five-per-cent threshold were presented in November to the Bend City Council, the county commissioners, and a body of formerly homeless young people called the Central Oregon Youth Action Board.
—Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2024
Today an international icon passed away: former U.S. President Jimmy Carter died at age 100 at his home in Plains, GA, after more than twenty-two (22) months in hospice.
—Steve Tengler, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
In the end, UnitedHealth paid a bitcoin ransom worth some twenty-two million dollars, and the system lurched back online.
—Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
Noun
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This production, which collapses in its first few instants and then drags itself painfully along for two hours and forty-five minutes, is a cautionary tale about relying on stardom.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2025
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More than one hundred different looks and accessories are featured in the exhibition and forty-five of fashion’s most emblematic houses and designers have loaned pieces to the Louvre.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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The musket ball was finally removed 17 years after Miller was wounded.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
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The Sassenach’s survival is an important development, given that Mrs. Fraser ended the previous episode with a musket ball in her liver and an alarming amount of her blood on the ground.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
6 Jan. 2025
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While searching the property, deputies found that the front door was barricaded shut and the back door was rigged with a shotgun.—
Nicole Acosta,
People.com,
5 Mar. 2025
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Jon Bernthal's Punisher will headline Werewolf by Night-style Marvel special: 'Like a shotgun blast of a story' (exclusive) Addressing it now with EW, Woll says those were genuine emotions.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
5 Mar. 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
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My first rifle had been a flintlock that had been given to me by an old friend, Ed Wesson, the gunsmith.—
Outdoor Life,
Outdoor Life,
23 Nov. 2023
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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
Noun
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Cost cutting ‘blunderbuss’ DOGE is part of a long line of presidential efforts to take an ax to the administrative state.—
Zac Anderson,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2025
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Colman is Edith Swan, a middle-aged church lady who still lives with her blunderbuss of a father (Timothy Spall) and mild-mannered mother (Gemma Jones) in a working-class neighborhood of Littlehampton.—
Ty Burr,
Washington Post,
4 Apr. 2024
Noun
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Also, the cuff size is a bit large and may not be ideal for small arms.—
Loren Brutsch,
Health,
19 Feb. 2025
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Natalia returned to Kosovo that fall for another two months of training, and she is currently certified to dispose of mines, rockets, artillery and mortar shells, submunitions, grenades, and small arms.—
Michael Holtz,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile, since the April 5 firearms seizure, police have stepped up enforcement in Cap-Haïtien.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
5 Mar. 2025
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Police later said there was no gunfire, but someone was arrested while in possession of a firearm.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA TODAY,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Twenty-two.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twenty-two. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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