twelfth
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The announcement comes days after the 48-year-old, now known as Ye, released his twelfth studio album Bully.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 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
But in its twelfth season, the new “Vanderpump” is standing still instead of moving forward.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025
All other intervals are given by irrational numbers based on the twelfth root of two, not nice numbers that can be written as a ratio of two small whole numbers.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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
It includes graduations in hundredths, thirty-seconds, sixteenths, twelfths, tenths, and eighths of an inch, also a brace-measure, an eight-square measure, and the Essex board-measure.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
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
Double and triple consonant endings present difficulties of articulation:—Robbed, bragged, divulged, mends, breathed, gossips, casques, barracks, depths, heights, lengths, breadths, lists, aspects, seethes, thirsteth, breathest, sheath'st, melt'st, search'st, sixths, twelfths, tests.
From The Ontario High School Reader by A.E. Marty
The latch is seven twelfths of a hole in length and one quarter in thickness.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
