variants
or .45
as in revolver
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Recent Examples of forty-five
Two years ago, Riley lost to Molinaro by forty-five hundred votes out of a total of nearly three hundred thousand; back then, his campaign could afford only three field organizers.
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Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
From September through Election Day, the firm reported, Democrats have reserved nearly forty-five million dollars’ worth of TV ad placements, while Republicans have reserved about forty million.
—Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024
Webster recently retired after forty-five years as a tool-and-die-maker, and now spends much of his time searching for arrowheads, some of mankind’s earliest tools.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
The artists were selected via a multiphase jury process from among 154 applicants chosen by a diverse pool of nominators from forty-five states; 53 percent of this year’s nominators were artists themselves, and 46 percent were first-time participants in the process.
—News Desk, Artforum, 14 Aug. 2024
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Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
From September through Election Day, the firm reported, Democrats have reserved nearly forty-five million dollars’ worth of TV ad placements, while Republicans have reserved about forty million.
—Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024
Webster recently retired after forty-five years as a tool-and-die-maker, and now spends much of his time searching for arrowheads, some of mankind’s earliest tools.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
The artists were selected via a multiphase jury process from among 154 applicants chosen by a diverse pool of nominators from forty-five states; 53 percent of this year’s nominators were artists themselves, and 46 percent were first-time participants in the process.
—News Desk, Artforum, 14 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for forty-five
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Prosecutors argued that on October 21, 2021, Gutierrez-Reed loaded the revolver at the center of this incident.Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2024
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Baldwin was pointing the weapon at Hutchins while preparing for a scene when the revolver discharged.Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
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At the time of its invention over 80 years ago, the PPK inspired an entirely new category in the firearm industry, now widely known as the concealed carry pistol.Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Meanwhile, Barrow was found guilty of assault, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a pistol, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2024
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According to the criminal complaint, Miller and his girlfriend were walking in the 700 block of Thomas Avenue when a vehicle drove onto the sidewalk in front of them and two males got out carrying handguns.Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 19 Nov. 2024
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The two push through the police tape to see what's going on, only to see a handgun on the bathroom floor and blood.Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2024
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One hundred and fifty-nine years ago, a 26-year-old white supremacist and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth pointed a .44 caliber derringer pistol at the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head and squeezed the trigger.Brian Matthew Jordan, National Review, 14 Apr. 2024
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This victim’s vision seems weird and fraudulent when Priscilla casually color-coordinates derringer pistols with designer dresses.Armond White, National Review, 3 Nov. 2023
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The society was founded, in 1785, by twenty-two local craftsmen, whose trades included tanning, silversmithing, ship-joining, stonecutting, coach-making, and chandlery.David Owen, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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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
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That’s because the six-shooter is a good approximation for a generic abstraction of a handgun.Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2024
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Towering over the Max Motors car lot is a giant gunslinger in the sky, six-shooters drawn and in a bit of a bad mood, judging by his expression.EDWARD M. EVELD, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
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Driving the news: The Phillies simulated Mets' starting pitcher Sean Manaea's oddball, sidearm delivery during batting practice.Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 9 Oct. 2024
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His unique pitching motion featured a very distinct wind-up – twisting at the hip to practically turn his entire body away from home plate and in the process flash his famed No. 23 jersey at the batter – before unleashing the ball with a nearly sidearm pitch.David Close, CNN, 8 Oct. 2024
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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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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
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“Forty-five.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forty-five. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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