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Recent Examples of five Duffels that scored fives for durability showed no signs of damage and kept the contents safe. Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2023 The Chicago White Sox rookie outfielder took matters into his own hands, giving high-fives to the air with a smile on his face. Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023 The move reportedly excited the royals; particularly Prince George, 9, who jumped up to give high-fives to others in the box, per The Mirror. Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 8 Apr. 2023 Eventually, Van Lith finished up and gave high-fives to the managers working around her before heading into the tunnel as a pocket of Louisville fans cheered her on. Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2023 See all Example Sentences for five 
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Noun
  • Between the lines: Cutting Watson before his contract expires in 2026 would still cost the Browns tens of millions of dollars, while his high salary makes a trade highly unlikely.
    Troy Smith, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024
  • But collaring millions of people, even if only hundreds of thousands in any one year, will require tens of thousands of agents, perhaps equivalent to a new Marine Corps, thousands of buses, barracks or tents plus guards, cooks, medics and doctors.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 17 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • In the bit, Maya Rudolph’s Harris and Andy Samberg’s Doug Emhoff fretted over the two’s friendliness.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Some of the notable attendees include Lori Harvey, model Alton Mason (both pictured above), Academy Award winner Natalie Portman, designer Riccardo Tisci, actress Laura Harrier, and artist Maya Margarita who was on the ones and twos, pictured below.
    Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 1 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Yet today’s Democrats see them just as the ones passing around the scallops and requesting those pesky toothpicks be placed on a platter.
    Ted Trimpa, The Denver Post, 12 Nov. 2024
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    April Ehrlich, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Partly because of the Administration’s projects, the building-trades unions have added fifty thousand new members in the past year—their most significant growth since the fifties.
    Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Bianca seems to at least be in her thirties, which would most likely mean her aunt is in her fifties or sixties.
    Marah Eakin, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Isabella Strahan and her twin sister Sophia are gracefully exiting their teens and entering their twenties.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Some have questioned whether Todd, who would have been in his early twenties when the bitcoin white paper was published, would have been capable of developing a sophisticated peer-to-peer digital cash system—a problem that had confounded many talented and experienced cryptographers before him.
    Joel Khalili, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson and Remington, handed over hundreds of thousands of names, addresses and other private data — without customer knowledge or consent — to the NSSF, which then entered the details into what would become a massive database.
    Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Outside the hearing room, a line of hundreds waiting to get in snaked through the Rayburn House Office Building hallway.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024

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“Five.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/five. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.

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