twelfth
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"Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on the twelfth flight test of Starship!" the company wrote on X.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
One of the largest nationwide anti-government protests took place on Thursday, the twelfth night of demonstrations.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
But in its twelfth season, the new “Vanderpump” is standing still instead of moving forward.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025
The maqāma genre emerged in the late tenth century and became especially popular from the twelfth century onward.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025
Fischer and Geller were to meet in the twelfth round in a pivotal matchup.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
If there are two and a tenth waves or eleven twelfths of a wave of one note for every wave of another note, they don't fit together as well.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
It includes graduations in hundredths, thirty-seconds, sixteenths, twelfths, tenths, and eighths of an inch, also a brace-measure, an eight-square measure, and the Essex board-measure.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
Indeed, eleven twelfths of the members were either dependents of the court, or zealous Cavaliers from the country.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
It has three struts, each nine holes in length, half a hole in breadth, and five twelfths in thickness.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
The windlass cup is two and seven twelfths holes long, two thirds of a hole thick, and three quarters broad.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
