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twenty-one

[twen-tee-wuhn, twuhn-] / ˈtwɛn tiˈwʌn, ˈtwʌn ti- /


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One hundred twenty-one of the 594 athletes on the American team — more than one in five — are from the state.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2024

At least twenty-one people have died in southern Brazil, after a cyclone made landfall in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2023

But twenty-one states, including Georgia and New York, still keep homebuyers in the dark.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2023

For example, two hundred twenty-one and four tenths.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2022

And by twenty-one, he had taken control of all the property and people he had inherited from his father.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis




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