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Recent Examples of twenty
Fun is the creation of three entrepreneurs in their early twenties: Noah Tweedale, Alon Cohen, and Dylan Kerler.
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Joel Khalili, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2025
Almost all of them are from La Escuela Libre de Música from Puerto Rico: Julito, who’s the one who turned 19; the trombone and the trumpet player are [in their twenties].
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2025
Moving south from central Texas, temperatures start to rise into the twenties.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
This great novel, which Thomas Mann wrote in his early twenties, published in 1901, and got the Nobel Prize for Literature for, describes the fortunes of one family through four generations, between 1835 and around 1875.
—The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
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Joel Khalili, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2025
Almost all of them are from La Escuela Libre de Música from Puerto Rico: Julito, who’s the one who turned 19; the trombone and the trumpet player are [in their twenties].
—Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2025
Moving south from central Texas, temperatures start to rise into the twenties.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
This great novel, which Thomas Mann wrote in his early twenties, published in 1901, and got the Nobel Prize for Literature for, describes the fortunes of one family through four generations, between 1835 and around 1875.
—The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty
Noun
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The invasive sea lamprey brought Great Lakes fishing to its knees in the fifties and sixties, until local communities and scientists battled back.—
Jayme Moye,
Outside Online,
17 Jan. 2025
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His colleagues were men in their fifties and sixties who’d started out in radio.—
Susan Morrison,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
Noun
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An airborne alien virus, designed to rewrite DNA, had been released over New York City in 1946 and spread globally, infecting tens of thousands worldwide.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
WIRED,
25 Jan. 2025
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The deadly Palisades and Eaton fires grew to be the largest, scorching tens of thousands of acres and destroying thousands of buildings.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
25 Jan. 2025
Noun
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During the pandemic years and the ones that followed, off-white, cream, and brown interiors reigned supreme due to their calming influence.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
30 Jan. 2025
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There’s ones that practically arrange themselves and it’s just gone like that.—
Ian Cohen,
Pitchfork,
30 Jan. 2025
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Brown is an athletic guard who can guard ones and twos on the court and destroy those who are less athletic.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
19 Jan. 2025
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Has the number two been popping up frequently in your life, from seeing 2:22 on a clock to noticing repeating twos on invoices?—
Olivia Munson,
USA TODAY,
20 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The intrigue: Both Raleigh and Durham had similar listening habits, with nearly identical top fives — though Durham left a spot for Ye, the controversial rapper and producer formerly known as Kanye West, and Raleigh preferred Morgan Wallen.—
Zachery Eanes,
Axios,
5 Dec. 2024
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This chart week is just beginning, so Carpenter will claim her three top fives for the next few days.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
4 Sep. 2024
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Since then, opioids have been linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths in the U.S.—
Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports,
arkansasonline.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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A lot of times hundreds of thousands spent on marketing those restaurants as well.—
Briah Lumpkins,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Jan. 2025
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“Twenty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twenty. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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