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Recent Examples of forty-five
Turn your body toward the person, make eye contact, and listen for thirty or forty-five seconds.
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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
Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Two years ago, Riley lost to Molinaro by forty-five hundred votes out of a total of nearly three hundred thousand; back then, his campaign could afford only three field organizers.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
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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
Share [Findings] Half of the flights taken by British men aged twenty to forty-five are for stag parties.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
Two years ago, Riley lost to Molinaro by forty-five hundred votes out of a total of nearly three hundred thousand; back then, his campaign could afford only three field organizers.
—Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for forty-five
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Police reportedly found a Taurus .38 special revolver, ammunition for multiple firearms, a high capacity magazine and drug paraphernalia during the search and arrested Jorge Bittar-Rivera, 46, of Waterbury.Staff report, Hartford Courant, 20 Dec. 2024
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Ghost guns can be pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, machineguns and more.Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2024
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Altoona police found the polymer pistol affixed with a metal slide and threaded barrel in Mangione’s backpack, according to the criminal complaint.Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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The pistol was loaded with a Glock magazine containing six nine-millimeter full metal jacket rounds.Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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The teen is alleged to have opened fire with a handgun in a study hall at the school, killing a staffer and student and injuring six others before turning her weapon on herself.KC Baker, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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The officers found four people dead inside the home and a handgun in the kitchen, state police said.Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2024
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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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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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One such community is EO, founded in 1987 by Verne Harnish and twenty-two other entrepreneurs.Colin C. Campbell, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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That’s because the six-shooter is a good approximation for a generic abstraction of a handgun.Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2024
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Towering over the Max Motors car lot is a giant gunslinger in the sky, six-shooters drawn and in a bit of a bad mood, judging by his expression.EDWARD M. EVELD, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
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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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Jesse Linares: Charged with possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute, transporting firearms interstate and false statement re-acquisition of firearms, and possession with intent to distribute cocaine.Hayleigh Colombo, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Dec. 2024
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Additionally, firearms were the leading cause of death among children in both 2020 and 2021, per data from KFF, a nonprofit that provides research about health care issues.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Forty-five.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forty-five. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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