half a dozen

idiom

: six
half a dozen eggs

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Stargazers are familiar with half a dozen or so bright meteor showers that return with unerring regularity every year — April's Lyrids, August's Perseids, Decembers's Geminids and others. Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2025 In coming days or weeks, SDSU will likely add half a dozen players from the portal. Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2025 On the other side of the Chao Phraya River, The Peninsula has half a dozen complementary health and wellbeing activities every day of the week: vinyasa yoga, HIIT, aqua aerobics, plant potting, meditation, on top of hours-long rituals at the spa. Lee Cobaj, Robb Report, 24 Apr. 2025 The overseers of funds and investments for California, Illinois and half a dozen other states cite Tesla’s sagging stock, disappointing first-quarter deliveries and surge of trade-ins by vehicle owners as being among their causes for concern. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for half a dozen

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“Half a dozen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/half%20a%20dozen. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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