twenty-two

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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. 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 See all Example Sentences for twenty-two 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Should that musket misfire, don’t look for the cleric.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • In the early morning hours of March 5, 2014, Derek stood outside in the snow near the garage and shot himself in the face with a 10-gauge shotgun.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2024
  • In the summer of 1989, Erik and Lyle Menendez burst into the den of their family’s Beverly Hills home armed with shotguns and opened fire, killing their mother and father.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • First-generation matchlock rifles, tanks, and aircraft had major limitations but improved over time.
    Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2018
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The screening finally took place this week just over three years after the film’s cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed when a firearm held by lead actor Baldwin discharged during an on-set rehearsal.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024
  • These firearms are responsible for 90% of homicides in some of the region's most vulnerable nations.
    Sarah Metz, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2024

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