twelve
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“As a result, they are more skeptical about their income expectations for the next twelve months.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Since 2013, Roblox says it has paid out more than $5 billion to creators, including $1.7 billion over the past twelve months.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
The research effort began more than twelve years ago, when scientists repeatedly encountered frogs that clearly appeared to represent species that had never been formally described.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Anthony Darrell Hines, 66, who has maintained his innocence for four years and is bedridden, is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee on Thursday under the same protocol that failed twelve weeks ago with Carruthers.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Even though I was twelve, I’d never passed for eight.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
We need to think about the world in terms of twelves!
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 7, 2019
Six seeds are 86-50 against the elevens, fives are 89-47 against twelves, and once you get to fours vs. thirteens, you're in never gonna happen territory.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 18, 2019
Your teacher chants, “Twelve twelves, a hundred thirty-four.”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2012
In its line of eights and two lines of twelves are models for every taste in streamlining, as well as strictly conventional models for the strictly conventional.
From Time Magazine Archive
They never mentioned Petra’s dream, Calder’s problem-solving, Charles Fort, the twelves, or the blue ones.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
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