twelfth
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"Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on the twelfth flight test of Starship!" the company wrote on X.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Much less familiar is Guglielmo of Malavalle, a twelfth century hermit venerated by the Augustinians for defeating a dragon using a simple wooden staff shaped like a pitchfork.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026
The Patriots, who already boasted the most Super Bowl appearances with 11, will now have their twelfth showing on American football's biggest stage, and a chance to vie for a record seventh Lombardi trophy.
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
Vanderpump left “Beverly Hills” some time ago, yet she still keeps a foot in “Vanderpump Rules,” even with the show overhauling its entire cast for its upcoming twelfth season.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2025
I know the exact date: October twelfth, fourth grade.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
If there are two and a tenth waves or eleven twelfths of a wave of one note for every wave of another note, they don't fit together as well.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
The sideposts on the right and left should be four holes high, excluding the tenons, and five twelfths of a hole thick; the tenons, half a hole.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
I bear the eleven- twelfths of you in my heart—I shall nominate the Deputies to the two series which are vacant, and I shall reduce the Legislative Body to the discharge of its proper duties.
From Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 12 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
In mat 335 all measurements are the same as in the above mats, except that the circle is divided into twelfths instead of sixths, making twice as many groups of fish.
From Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 by Hugo H. Miller
The tenth of her revenue was always applied to the relief of the unfortunate, and was deposited by twelfths, each month, with her First Almoner.
From The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
