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  • noun A Roman numeral representing the number twenty two (22).

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  • A member of three Super Bowl teams, including winners in XXII and XXVI, Green set a club record with 54 career interceptions — while often matched against the opposing team's top receiver.

    Meet the 2008 Football Hall of Fame class 2008

  • Granted, the language in Senate Rule XXII is not the same as the language in the Budget Act, but upon reading the Budget Act, it’s quite clear that the time limits are meant to be time limits.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Slaughter Solution constitutional? 2010

  • Cboldt — Granted, the language in Senate Rule XXII is not the same as the language in the Budget Act, but upon reading the Budget Act, it’s quite clear that the time limits are meant to be time limits.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Slaughter Solution constitutional? 2010

  • (The closest: Washington trailed Denver 10-0 before winning 42-10 in XXII.)

    USATODAY.com - Never on Super Sunday: OT, more 2002

  • Accordingly if we take the unpleasant-delusion group to be constituted of Cases VI and X (transfers from the first group), XIII, XIV, and XIV to XXII, that is eleven cases, we come upon the striking fact that virtually all of them are renal cases.

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

  • Adam: the Senate’s Rule XXII, which is how a filibuster is ended (the critical thing), was passed to over-ride LaFollete’s attempt to keep us out of the First World War.

    Matthew Yglesias » “Minority Rights” and the US Senate 2010

  • And I further move that, the “beginning” of the 94th Congress having now ended, and no constitutional question now existing, if in fact one ever existed, debate on this motion may continue until brought to an end as provided by the provisions of Senate Rule XXII.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • And I further move that, the “beginning” of the 94th Congress having now ended, and no constitutional question now existing, if in fact one ever existed, debate on this motion may continue until brought to an end as provided by the provisions of Senate Rule XXII.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • And I further move that, the “beginning” of the 94th Congress having now ended, and no constitutional question now existing, if in fact one ever existed, debate on this motion may continue until brought to an end as provided by the provisions of Senate Rule XXII.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Heck, Ross wrote a very similar story for Sword and Sorceress XXII called "Pearl of Fire," wherein a young woman accidentally receives a family heirloom meant for someone else.

    It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a brand new webcomic! norilana 2009

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