five
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So-called core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy prices, rose 2.6% from a year earlier and were flat from the prior month—the first month without an increase in more than five years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
In 2010, Villa also scored five to finish as joint top scorer with Uruguay's Diego Forlan, Wesley Sneijder of the Netherlands and Germany's Thomas Muller.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
I hadn’t been for decades and two of my five grandkids were here, and they’d never been either.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The researchers tested PLATON's spatial resolution in laboratory experiments using light levels ranging from several hundred detected photons down to only five.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
“Miss Genovese gave you five infractions. Miss Genovese ran out of infractions to give you so instead she just hung a sandwich board of shame around your neck for your entire shift.”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Due to the pandemic, we were all split into different changing rooms into fives and he was part of our five.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
Manny Farber said that when he was about 4 years old, his father demonstrated to him how a computer worked by writing a computer program on the fly that could count to 100 by fives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
A half dozen little kids have come out of the bleachers seeking high fives from any Palisades High basketball player.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2026
Children and young people have been particularly affected with under fives being admitted to hospital with flu at higher rates than any other age group during that period.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
All four were merrily flapping their arms, giving each other high and low fives.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
