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Recent Examples of twenty-two
The last time Cena turned babyface was in 2003—meaning that he’s been playing good for the last twenty-two years.
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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
Chapters twenty-two and twenty-six record Saul’s testimony of the experience.
—Dan Miller, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
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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
Chapters twenty-two and twenty-six record Saul’s testimony of the experience.
—Dan Miller, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
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But China has countered the Trump Administration’s tariffs of a hundred and forty-five per cent with tariffs of a hundred and twenty-five per cent, as of late April, on American goods.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
30 Apr. 2025
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Around forty-five million dollars, or sixteen per cent, of its money comes from the federal government, and is earmarked for maintenance and building operations.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 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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Seriously, watch this, there's cannons blasting, musket fire and smoke everywhere!—
Jim Reineking,
USA TODAY,
31 Jan. 2025
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The gear is museum-worthy – muskets longer than men are tall, coats ranging from rich brocade to dun homespun.—
Melanie Stetson Freeman,
Christian Science Monitor,
17 Apr. 2025
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An Army combat veteran whose Gulf War experience triggered severe mental problems was executed Thursday evening in Florida for the 1998 shotgun slayings of his girlfriend and her three young children.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
1 May 2025
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All were killed with a 12-gauge shotgun that was found on a kitchen counter.—
Greg Norman , Elizabeth Pritchett,
FOXNews.com,
1 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
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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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