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
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
The maqāma genre emerged in the late tenth century and became especially popular from the twelfth century onward.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025
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
It ended up being a present for Isa’s twelfth birthday, and Jessie had spent nearly all of June working on it.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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
The highest note, so to speak, in circulation represents this last area; but all calculations are made in staltau, or twelfths thereof.
From Across the Zodiac by Percy Greg
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
The tenth of her revenue was always applied to the relief of the unfortunate, and was deposited by twelfths, each month, with her First Almoner.
From The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
It should be given the thickness of seven twelfths of a hole.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
