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dozen

noun as in twelve

Strongest matches

Weak matches

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California has about two dozen operating oil platforms in state and federal waters, some of which are visible from the shore in different parts of Southern California.

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"You need half a dozen ways to help explain something and you are waiting for one of those ways to click with a kid, to pursue that."

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They opened their first restaurant in New York in 1994 and they have since expanded their hospitality empire to dozens of cities around the world.

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They are being held in Belém on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, which is home to dozens of indigenous groups.

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Last week, more than a dozen historians said parliament was being made "the place of honourable remembrance for a declared antisemite".

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