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Recent Examples of twenty-two
Back in May, a survey of battleground states conducted by the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Siena College showed Trump leading Biden by a whopping twenty-two points on who voters trust to do a better job with the economy.
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John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
Ivan is twenty-two, probably past his prodigy days where chess is concerned.
—Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
Twenty-seven artists are set to participate, with twenty-two new projects in an array of media— including painting, textiles, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and performance—on view.
—News Desk, Artforum, 21 June 2024
The price at the time was twenty-two hundred dollars per pound.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
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John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
Ivan is twenty-two, probably past his prodigy days where chess is concerned.
—Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
Twenty-seven artists are set to participate, with twenty-two new projects in an array of media— including painting, textiles, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and performance—on view.
—News Desk, Artforum, 21 June 2024
The price at the time was twenty-two hundred dollars per pound.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
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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
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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
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Should that musket misfire, don’t look for the cleric.Rob Wieland, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
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The town's population grew in the 1820s as a result of the lead mining boom, where the mine became one of the most productive in the region, manufacturing the musket balls used in the Civil War, according to the city's website.Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2024
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On back-to-back plays, though, Jordan Love fumbled shotgun snaps.Rob Reischel, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Here's a look at life in prison for the notorious brothers and three paths to potential freedom: The case Lyle Menendez, then 21, and Erik Menendez, then 18, admitted to buying shotguns and firing 16 rounds at Jose and Kitty Menendez inside the family's Beverly Hills home in 1989.Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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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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Modern gun technologies are far, far more deadly than the one-shot flintlocks of the 18th century—shouldn’t that matter?Robert J. Spitzer, Time, 6 June 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
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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
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The State Department, in its blunderbuss way, wanted to open up a kind of détente with the citizens of Communist Eastern Europe.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Mar. 2023
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And here is a group of guerrillas who, with the help of Iran but fighting with small arms and so on, was able to achieve that.Peter Balonon-Rosen, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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With this minimally invasive surgery, the surgeon uses a computer with special controls that guide the robot's small arms, which have a camera and special instruments attached to them.Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 30 Sep. 2024
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The gun used by the man was found at his feet, and it was later revealed to be a replica firearm, Reeson said.Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Park's deer season near A permit-only alternative firearms deer season, formerly muzzle-loader season, is set for Nov. 22-25 at Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area.Flip Putthoff, arkansasonline.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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