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- noun Plural form of
thirteen .
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Examples
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Like most other Nikes the thirteens were a little tight so I tried the fourteens.
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I envisaged a future during which one of the babies formerly known as the thirteens would get a crap-assed cold and how sad I would be to not be able to offer Dimetapp or Robitussin or (my personal childhood favorite) Dimetapp and Robitussion swished together.
Julia 2009
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Forty years earlier, genetically-engineered supermen known as 'thirteens' were created to serve as unstoppable soldiers.
Archive 2007-03-01 Adam Whitehead 2007
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Forty years earlier, genetically-engineered supermen known as 'thirteens' were created to serve as unstoppable soldiers.
Black Man by Richard Morgan Adam Whitehead 2007
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(I wear thirteens) on a mature, intelligent adult and hands that, as with feet, look like entirely different structures from my large, clumsy-looking, angular ones - I can almost feel what I'm looking at under my hands even when the woman is thirty feet away, not that I ever stare obviously enough to make a woman uncomfortable, or at all when I'm with someone; both are unkind, ungentlemanly.
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(I wear thirteens) on a mature, intelligent adult and hands that, as with feet, look like entirely different structures from my large, clumsy-looking, angular ones - I can almost feel what I'm looking at under my hands even when the woman is thirty feet away, not that I ever stare obviously enough to make a woman uncomfortable, or at all when I'm with someone; both are unkind, ungentlemanly.
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Also, since the topic of the Maya calendar has come up in this thread concerning the number thirteen, one might note that the Mayas had a special place in their numbering system for what one might call “magic thirteens.”
It's Friday the 13th. Ann Althouse 2009
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Hence, the genetic program to create Carl and his fellows (called thirteens, being the thirteenth strain) to try and even the playing field.
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Even though people understand the need for thirteens, they are still treated with disdain or outright prejudice, which is only heightened because Carl is black.
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And now I'm in the middle of one of the most amazing thirteens of my life.
seanan_mcguire: Two weeks; thirteen days. seanan_mcguire 2009
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