twenty-one

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One hundred twenty-one of the 594 athletes on the American team — more than one in five — are from the state.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2024

At least twenty-one people have died in southern Brazil, after a cyclone made landfall in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2023

But twenty-one states, including Georgia and New York, still keep homebuyers in the dark.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2023

On Iwo Jima, the Japanese sacrificed twenty-one thousand soldiers and inflicted twenty-six thousand casualties on U.S.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Men can enlist in the service at eighteen but cannot vote until age twenty-one.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson