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
Andrew remains eighth in line to the crown, followed by his daughters Beatrice and Eugenie, in ninth and twelfth place respectively.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
Taylor Swift has announced her twelfth studio album The Life of a Showgirl, after an intense 24 hours of speculation from fans.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2025
The Indian mathematician Bhaskara wrote in the twelfth century that “there is no square root of a negative number, for a negative number is not a square.”
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
Divide the circle into sixths, then into twelfths.
From Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 by Hugo H. Miller
This budget being paid by twelfths before the 15th of the following month, she required to have submitted to her the receipts of the month past.
From The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
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
The latch is seven twelfths of a hole in length and one quarter in thickness.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
