twenty-two
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 20 plus 2.
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a symbol for this number, as 22 or XXII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
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The Taylor family called her “the greatest medium, the one whose faculties for transmission were the purest …” and through Kate, stayed in touch with dead family members for more than twenty-two years.
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“Twenty jars of sliced peaches for pie, twenty-two jars of preserves for biscuits. Ten jars of spiced peaches. I’ll do more tomorrow.”
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Sue and Bruce were both young—Sue was twenty-one years old and Bruce was twenty-two.
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“Well then, I am a lucky man getting to meet you. Now, I heard you were twenty-two years old, is that right?”
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Boomer Malone began counting walnuts: “...twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four...”
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