Definitions
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- noun The
cardinal number immediately followingtwenty-five and precedingtwenty-seven .
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- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-five and one
- adjective being six more than twenty
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Examples
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Alarmed by what appeared to be a great number of East Germans crossing the border daily this was before the building of the Berlin Wall, officers of the GDR conducted a study in 1956 and 1957 and found that each day, on average, some twenty-six thousand East Berlin youths attended movies and dances at the West Berlin “border theaters.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Nineteen of the twenty-six defendants 73 percent on federal death row under active death sentences are nonwhite, and all but one are black.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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Between 1900 and 1940, more Jews won boxing world championships—twenty-six—than Irish, Italian, German, or African American fighters.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Hoover had designated twenty-six thousand individuals to be arrested and jailed in any national emergency, including Martin Luther King Jr. and Norman Mailer.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Hoover had designated twenty-six thousand individuals to be arrested and jailed in any national emergency, including Martin Luther King Jr. and Norman Mailer.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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This was twenty-six years before Margaret Sanger more famously opened her first birth control clinic.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Hoover had designated twenty-six thousand individuals to be arrested and jailed in any national emergency, including Martin Luther King Jr. and Norman Mailer.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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“Fifteen unicorns, twelve griffons, twenty-six phoenixes, and five dragons,” Mountain answered promptly.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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This blunder killed one officer and thirteen enlisted men and wounded twenty-six.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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But as Doyne was gathering evidence at the scene of the bombing, a second and then a third bomb detonated, and at the age of twenty-six he lost both his left arm and left eye.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
mollusque commented on the word twenty-six
Already, at hungry twenty-six, Gravener looked as blank and parlimentary as if he were fifty and popular.
--Henry James, 1894, The Coxon Fund
November 19, 2009