twenty-two

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Recent Examples of twenty-two In November, California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, with the backing of a hundred-and-twenty-two-million-dollar campaign, helped persuade a majority of the state’s voters to approve a ballot measure making the map official. Jason Zengerle, New Yorker, 18 May 2026 In solidarity with the resignation of the entire 2026 Venice Biennale voting jury, fifty-four individual artists and twenty-two teams affiliated with national pavilions have now withdrawn from consideration for the Visitors’ Lion awards. News Desk, Artforum, 11 May 2026 After the gates opened and a minute and twenty-two seconds passed, the sell-out crowd at Keeneland realized what his team already knew. Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2026 With the games dripping out, one at a time, the entire planet is focused on a single match while it is being played, all the eyes of the world resting on twenty-two elite athletes acting out a sporting telenovela, living making decisions without a script, under conditions of hysterical pressure. Jeffrey Pierre, NPR, 17 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for twenty-two
Recent Examples of Synonyms for twenty-two
Noun
  • But that hasn’t stopped out-of-state reenactors from worrying their muskets will be confiscated at the George Washington Bridge, says Justin Costantino, adjutant of the Long Island Companies of the 3rd New York Regiment.
    Allen G. Breed, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • Excerpts of the blue book, images of important battlefields and a replica of a Revolutionary War musket line the walls and bookshelves of the museum.
    Amanda Rosa Updated April 28, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Police also took a 9mm pistol, a shotgun, and a gambling accounting system.
    Jeff A. Chamer May 15, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2026
  • The biggest change comes to all shotguns, which are now less accurate when moving.
    Mike Stubbs, Forbes.com, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • Smoke billowed from his flintlock and Rhoades didn’t see where the buck ran after the shot.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The flintlock pistol that Torres is given by the Yautja to fight his fellow prisoners is known by Predator fans as the Raphael Adolini 1715 pistol for an engraved plate that says just that.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • With feverish speed and characteristic blunderbuss, President Donald Trump has given the federal government – and himself – unprecedented control over private economic decisions.
    Matthew Mitchell, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Trump would also stop treating the Europeans as enemies with his blunderbuss tariffs.
    Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • At least three states — Hawaii, Ohio and North Dakota — treat a smoothbore musket the same as an AK-47 or AR-15.
    Allen G. Breed, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • This tank is potentially equipped with a 130mm smoothbore gun.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Ottomans deployed field artillery and Janissary infantry armed with matchlocks in a defensive formation called tabur jangi, in which carts and wagons were used to build barricades on the battlefield.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The birth of ‘gunpowder warfare’ can be traced back to the 15th century and the invention of the matchlock gun, the first mechanical firing device.
    Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Researchers recently found medieval cannonballs from culverins, an early form of cannon, that were most likely used by Vlad the Impaler, during his bloody battle in 1461 with the Ottoman Turks.
    Fox News, Fox News, 5 Aug. 2019
Noun
  • To put that in perspective, when Beretta started making arquebus barrels, Michelangelo was still working in Rome.
    Big Think, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026

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“Twenty-two.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twenty-two. Accessed 22 May. 2026.

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