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Recent Examples of twenty-two
The society was founded, in 1785, by twenty-two local craftsmen, whose trades included tanning, silversmithing, ship-joining, stonecutting, coach-making, and chandlery.
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David Owen, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
The Yankees and the Dodgers are baseball’s Big Oil franchises, the prosperous winners of now forty-one and twenty-two pennants, respectively, since the World Series began.
—Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024
Five years, eight egg retrievals, five transfers, one endometriosis diagnosis, twenty-two procedures under anesthesia, two abdominal surgeries, and four miscarriages.
—Tara Lipinski, Allure, 15 Oct. 2024
In Incheon, K-pop luminaries were performing before an audience of twenty-two thousand.
—Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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David Owen, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
The Yankees and the Dodgers are baseball’s Big Oil franchises, the prosperous winners of now forty-one and twenty-two pennants, respectively, since the World Series began.
—Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2024
Five years, eight egg retrievals, five transfers, one endometriosis diagnosis, twenty-two procedures under anesthesia, two abdominal surgeries, and four miscarriages.
—Tara Lipinski, Allure, 15 Oct. 2024
In Incheon, K-pop luminaries were performing before an audience of twenty-two thousand.
—Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
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In mid-July, the U.K. hosted forty-five European leaders, including Volodymyr Zelensky, of Ukraine, at Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill, where eight hundred scones were served to the guests for tea.—
Sam Knight,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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This would be Tuckahoe, New York, 35 minutes from Grand Central Terminal and my home town for the past forty-five years.—
John Mariani,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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The Sassenach’s survival is an important development, given that Mrs. Fraser ended the previous episode with a musket ball in her liver and an alarming amount of her blood on the ground.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
6 Jan. 2025
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In recent decades, however, the military has also been polluting the home front, most notably with a toxic chemical never heard of in the era of muskets and drums: PFAS.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
25 Sep. 2024
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For firearm enthusiasts, the venerable Italian gunmaker Beretta (one of SCI’s longest running partners) will be showcasing a one-of-a-kind shotgun at its booth that is part of a global auction ending at the end of January.—
Chris Dorsey,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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The alleged auto thief had a 12-gauge shotgun, ammunition and marijuana in that vehicle when he was pulled over by authorities in Clare County Sunday, according to MLive.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
15 Jan. 2025
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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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Natalia returned to Kosovo that fall for another two months of training, and she is currently certified to dispose of mines, rockets, artillery and mortar shells, submunitions, grenades, and small arms.—
Michael Holtz,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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The benefits of such innovation are clear: first, the armor and size of the vehicle protect the driver against small arms fire.—
David L. Knoll,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Sep. 2016
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The outlet stated that officers didn't find a firearm, but did find the group discussions on the messaging platforms after searching through his digital devices.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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Officers learned that three male suspects wearing masks and brandishing firearms broke into the residence and pointed a handgun at one of the two juveniles in the home, police said.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
16 Jan. 2025
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