five

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Recent Examples of five Kit Kats and Snickers round out the top five, taking fourth and fifth place respectively. Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Sep. 2025 All five also contested last year's leadership election won by Ishiba. Satoshi Sugiyama, Reuters, 15 Sep. 2025 Jackson’s contract is roughly market value for backup centers, perhaps even on the lower end for one of the better reserve fives in the league. Tony East, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2025 Randle has started playing five-on-five, meaning his return from an injury that has kept him out for nine games is imminent. Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for five
Recent Examples of Synonyms for five
Noun
  • That kind of skeuomorphism—the design of a digital interface to resemble a physical one, by, for example, adding a faux-metal texture to a calculator app—has been out of fashion for more than a decade, ever since Apple moved away from it in the early twenty-tens.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The video, which has racked up tens of millions of views on social media, was widely interpreted as mocking the death of Kirk, who was assassinated by a shot through the neck last month.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • He is joined by six of his players — many more will join by half-time, arriving in ones and twos, shuffling over the teal concrete — and by assorted members of the Xavier clan, all wearing colourful training kit.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Like the ones will go against the ones, ones will go against the twos, so everybody basically gets to see everybody on the roster at some point on the field.
    Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Instead of always purchasing plastic water bottles while sightseeing, bring a reusable water bottle with you, like this one from LifeStraw.
    Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Asked directly whether there were points over the last 20 years when moments like this one seemed tenuous, MacLellan brought up the aftermath of the 2017 Stanley Cup playoffs.
    Sean Gentille, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Japan says at least 17 of its citizens were snatched by North Korean agents in the late 1970s and 1980s – alongside hundreds of unexplained cases.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
  • While the details remain classified, the goal is to build and launch a network of hundreds of spy satellites—or maybe more—with specialized intelligence payloads into low earth orbit.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025

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