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Recent Examples of forty-five
For ideal immune function, health professionals advise engaging in moderate-intensity exercise two to three times a week for up to forty-five minutes.
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Karina Zaiets, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024
To speed up the count and to improve the system, in 2022, the state passed Act 88, which distributed forty-five million dollars to counties in exchange for their agreement to process ballots around the clock until the count is completed.
—Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2024
Turn your body toward the person, make eye contact, and listen for thirty or forty-five seconds.
—Leon E. Moores, Md, Dsc, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
In the mid-sixties, a team of scientists succeeded in drilling all the way through the ice sheet, about forty-five hundred feet deep.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
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Karina Zaiets, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024
To speed up the count and to improve the system, in 2022, the state passed Act 88, which distributed forty-five million dollars to counties in exchange for their agreement to process ballots around the clock until the count is completed.
—Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2024
Turn your body toward the person, make eye contact, and listen for thirty or forty-five seconds.
—Leon E. Moores, Md, Dsc, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
In the mid-sixties, a team of scientists succeeded in drilling all the way through the ice sheet, about forty-five hundred feet deep.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for forty-five
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In December 2016, Welch drove from his hometown of Salisbury, N.C., to the pizza parlor and entered openly carrying an AR-15-style rifle and a revolver, which led terrified customers and employees to flee the eatery.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
10 Jan. 2025
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That evening, Skye McBride had found a loaded revolver in her father’s bedroom and accidentally shot herself, police found.—
Elise Wrabetz,
NBC news,
25 Dec. 2024
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Larry then jumped out of bed and rushed at Walker, whose pistol had jammed.—
Ben Brachfeld,
People.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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In October 2024, Wyatt Swan shot his wife with a pistol in their northeast Washington apartment, according to a Jan. 24 news release by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.—
Paloma Chavez,
Miami Herald,
27 Jan. 2025
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Missouri Woman Charged with Husband's Murder After Claiming an Intruder Broke In and Shot Him Officers noticed a pillow and blanket on the floor with bullet holes in them, and then found a .38 Special handgun underneath a bunk bed in another room, authorities said, KCTV reported.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
29 Jan. 2025
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After exchanging the item, a suspect allegedly pointed a handgun at the resident and told them to walk away, police said.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
28 Jan. 2025
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One hundred and fifty-nine years ago, a 26-year-old white supremacist and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth pointed a .44 caliber derringer pistol at the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head and squeezed the trigger.—
Brian Matthew Jordan,
National Review,
14 Apr. 2024
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This victim’s vision seems weird and fraudulent when Priscilla casually color-coordinates derringer pistols with designer dresses.—
Armond White,
National Review,
3 Nov. 2023
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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
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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
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The Broncos’ most successful regular season since Peyton Manning hung up his six-shooter ended with a historic, and emphatic laugher.—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
5 Jan. 2025
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One look at the bottle, whose stopper resembles an Old West-style six-shooter, confirms it.—
Tony Sachs,
Forbes,
3 Jan. 2025
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In the first quarter, while trailing 3-0, Williams dropped back to pass and tried to flick the ball up the field with a sidearm pass.—
Ryan Gaydos,
Fox News,
13 Oct. 2024
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Driving the news: The Phillies simulated Mets' starting pitcher Sean Manaea's oddball, sidearm delivery during batting practice.—
Isaac Avilucea,
Axios,
9 Oct. 2024
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He was sentenced in November to three years and two months in prison for illegally possessing firearms and ammunition.—
BrieAnna J. Frank,
USA TODAY,
29 Jan. 2025
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His parents, Dorothy and Thomas, were also each charged with criminal possession of a firearm after the .22- caliber gun used in the shooting was found in their West Hempstead bedroom, according to prosecutors.—
Landon Mion,
Fox News,
28 Jan. 2025
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