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
Much less familiar is Guglielmo of Malavalle, a twelfth century hermit venerated by the Augustinians for defeating a dragon using a simple wooden staff shaped like a pitchfork.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026
The Patriots, who already boasted the most Super Bowl appearances with 11, will now have their twelfth showing on American football's biggest stage, and a chance to vie for a record seventh Lombardi trophy.
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
Their places in the line of succession will also stay the same, with Beatrice in ninth and Eugenie in twelfth place.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
As she grabbed the twelfth board, she tried to steady the pounding in her throat.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
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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
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And, in spite of all this coöperation, he still saw no production lines which spewed out antigrav units at some such rate as seventeen and five twelfths per second.
From Sense from Thought Divide by H. R. van Dongen
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
Costing eleven twelfths as much as before, the article must sell eight sevenths as freely—which is possible only when it thrusts itself extensively into the place of other consumers' goods.
From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by John Bates Clark
The cheek nailed on to them, named the "bench," or by some the "box," and made fast by means of dove-tailed tenons, is one hole thick and seven twelfths of a hole in height.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio