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Recent Examples of forty-five
Within the first few pages, our forty-five-year-old narrator, a man addicted to his phone a normal amount (which is to say, disastrously), drops his phone just after FaceTiming his ten-year-old daughter.
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Hannah Gold, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Under the leadership of Ho, who is being assisted by curators Che Kyongfa, Park Gahee, and Brian Kuan Wood, the Biennale will feature forty-five artists and collectives from twenty countries—the smallest cohort since its 1995 founding.
—News Desk, Artforum, 16 Mar. 2026
Supply runs to Palatka, some forty-five miles away, took all of two weeks.
—Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
Then seventy, Kluge and his third wife, Patricia, had moved to a forty-five-room Georgian estate Kluge built for her in rural Virginia.
—Gabriel Sherman, HollywoodReporter, 3 Feb. 2026
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Hannah Gold, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Under the leadership of Ho, who is being assisted by curators Che Kyongfa, Park Gahee, and Brian Kuan Wood, the Biennale will feature forty-five artists and collectives from twenty countries—the smallest cohort since its 1995 founding.
—News Desk, Artforum, 16 Mar. 2026
Supply runs to Palatka, some forty-five miles away, took all of two weeks.
—Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
Then seventy, Kluge and his third wife, Patricia, had moved to a forty-five-room Georgian estate Kluge built for her in rural Virginia.
—Gabriel Sherman, HollywoodReporter, 3 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for forty-five
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Following Alfonso Morales’ arrest, officers seized an assault rifle, a semiautomatic pistol and a revolver from the apartment, according to Montoya.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
25 Mar. 2026
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Dingle was taken into custody and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs, criminal possession of a pistol or revolver, carrying a pistol without a permit and carrying a dangerous weapon in a motor vehicle.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
23 Mar. 2026
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On March 11, a San Francisco police violence reduction team raided his Albany apartment and found a Glock pistol with a fully automatic sear switch, according to police.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
30 Mar. 2026
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Zangara, who had purchased the pistol for $8 at a local pawnshop, mingled among a record crowd of 25,000 people who had come to catch a glimpse of the famed FDR.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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Two people have been charged, and a handgun was recovered, following a gunfire incident in the early morning of March 26 on the East Side of Aurora, according to the Aurora Police Department.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2026
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Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department have fatally shot a man who was allegedly armed with a handgun in East LA on Wednesday morning.—
Chelsea Hylton,
CBS News,
1 Apr. 2026
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This mysterious derringer pistol has sparked more intrigue than any of his other dangerous finds because people want to know the back story.—
Mike Sullivan,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 2026
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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
Noun
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The search turned up additional drugs, drug paraphernalia, and a zip gun.—
cleveland,
cleveland,
27 Jan. 2022
Noun
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And a sidearm lefty against [Smith] isn’t ideal either.—
Evan Grant,
Dallas Morning News,
28 Mar. 2026
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Each had a sidearm clasped in both hands.—
Scott Eden,
Rolling Stone,
1 Feb. 2026
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In the latest Texas gold fight, though, six-shooters, stagecoaches and dusty trails have been replaced by legal briefs and courtrooms. FROM 2016: New law calls for bringing Texas gold home.—
Paul Flahive,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Mar. 2026
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The handgun, which was introduced in 1935 after Prohibition, is a six-shooter revolver that fires rounds at a high velocity.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
28 Nov. 2025
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There were four Elvises—two in fading black and white, two in lurid colour—all aiming a six-gun straight at her.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
30 Aug. 2023
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“Forty-five.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forty-five. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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