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Recent Examples of twenty-two
Austin quit the game at twenty, before a brief comeback years later; Hingis retired, for the first time, at twenty-two.
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Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
The last time Cena turned babyface was in 2003—meaning that he’s been playing good for the last twenty-two years.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 4 Mar. 2025
The 122 diamonds around the top edges recognize the NFL centennial and the team’s twenty-two playoff appearances.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2025
By this point, the attorneys general of twenty-two states and the District of Columbia had also sued the Administration.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2025
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Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
The last time Cena turned babyface was in 2003—meaning that he’s been playing good for the last twenty-two years.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 4 Mar. 2025
The 122 diamonds around the top edges recognize the NFL centennial and the team’s twenty-two playoff appearances.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2025
By this point, the attorneys general of twenty-two states and the District of Columbia had also sued the Administration.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
Noun
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If the department seems small, with just forty-five officers tasked with protecting more than twenty thousand residents, that’s because New Canaan has always been one of the safest towns in Connecticut.—
Rich Cohen,
Rolling Stone,
20 May 2025
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About seventy people crowded onto a vehicle intended for forty-five.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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Beretta traces its history to 1526, when Bartolomeo Beretta (d. 1565), a rifle barrel maker in the small northern Italian town of Gardone, sold 185 arquebus barrels—a handheld long gun and a forerunner to the modern rifle—to the Republic of Venice.—
Giacomo Tognini,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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The worshipers insisted on congregating to pray at the crucifix in the local church and threatened to shoot with an arquebus – a long gun used during the Renaissance period – anyone who got in their way.—
Hannah Marcus,
The Conversation,
25 Sep. 2020
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Later, Flinders interacted with the First Nations people again, this time giving them his shot belt that included musket balls, according to the release.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2025
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Seriously, watch this, there's cannons blasting, musket fire and smoke everywhere!—
Jim Reineking,
USA TODAY,
31 Jan. 2025
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Short-barrel firearms include rifles with barrels shorter than 16 inches and shotguns with barrels less than 18 inches, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
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Shultz also allegedly tried to grab a rifle or the shotgun out of its holder, and at that moment, the deputies shot him multiple times and killed him.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
28 May 2025
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Although a gunshot from a flintlock pistol lasts only an eye blink, the sound is composed of numerous elements: the squeeze of the trigger, the strike of the firing mechanism against the flint, the ignition of the powder, the slug’s passage through the barrel, the report, the impact.—
Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
3 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
Noun
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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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What the Supreme Court should not do is hand down a blunderbuss of a legal rule — one that could very well throw every public school in the country into turmoil — based on a half-baked legal theory constructed by lawyers who don’t even know if their clients’ rights were violated yet.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
15 Apr. 2025
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Now comes President Donald Trump with his blunderbuss actions that weaken or threaten to weaken the press across the board, perplexing us all who are paying attention.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025
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Three Indian army officials said that Pakistani soldiers used small arms to fire at an Indian position in Kashmir late Thursday.—
Time,
Time,
25 Apr. 2025
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday announced the closure of a small arm within the State Department aimed at countering foreign disinformation campaigns, which Republicans increasingly criticized as silencing conservative voices online.—
Laura Kelly,
The Hill,
16 Apr. 2025
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