twelve
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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
“The English Patient” was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and won nine, including Best Picture.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Researchers identified bones there belonging to at least twelve Neanderthals.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
Going back as far as 1900, in the last twelve months alone, S&P 500’s earnings have jumped from 26% above trend to 57% and yet earnings multiples have continued to expand, they noted.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
And then I was standing with a group of ten or twelve just inside the gate.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
To lessen drag, Eagle's new tab-shaped rudder is much smaller than usual and is tucked farther forward than in most twelves.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I’ve only run this weight five miles before, and it took me about an hour. That’s, like, twelves, and we’re doing ten thirties!”
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
