twenty

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Noun
  • Amid the military build-up, tens of thousands of Palestinians continued to leave the city, which was estimated to have a total of about one million inhabitants - many of them already displaced multiple times - before Israel announced its plans for a ground incursion.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The hepatitis B vaccine has been credited with saving tens of thousands of lives since physicians began administering it at birth more than 30 years ago.
    Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The firms and governments that treat CCU as a strategic imperative today will be the ones shaping tomorrow’s markets.
    Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Since pivoting from black and pinto beans to roasted and ground ones, Niccol has been trying to reverse Starbucks’s falling sales by returning to its coffeehouse origins.
    Molly Liebergall, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • He is joined by six of his players — many more will join by half-time, arriving in ones and twos, shuffling over the teal concrete — and by assorted members of the Xavier clan, all wearing colourful training kit.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Like the ones will go against the ones, ones will go against the twos, so everybody basically gets to see everybody on the roster at some point on the field.
    Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Jackson’s contract is roughly market value for backup centers, perhaps even on the lower end for one of the better reserve fives in the league.
    Tony East, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2025
  • The Sabres had a 16-10 advantage in scoring chances with him on the ice at five-on-five.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Her visit to Rogers comes 13 days after hundreds of Arkansas farmers met with staff members from the state's congressional delegation in Brookland in Craighead County to describe their economic status.
    Cristina LaRue, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Nor does the executive order bar any federal agency from continuing to offer its services, websites, and materials in Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, or hundreds of other languages spoken across the country.
    Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Twenty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twenty. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.

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