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twelfth

[twelfth] / twɛlfθ /
ADJECTIVE
twelve
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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

The announcement comes days after the 48-year-old, now known as Ye, released his twelfth studio album Bully.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026

The maqāma genre emerged in the late tenth century and became especially popular from the twelfth century onward.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2025

Their places in the line of succession will also stay the same, with Beatrice in ninth and Eugenie in twelfth place.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 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

Everything has to be done by halves, quarters, or even tenths or twelfths, a la X. So I sit down again, cross my arms, and surrender myself to pure, unalloyed SUFFERING.

From Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2 by Francis Hueffer

You see, Jervis, we have photographed the thumb-print in contact with a numbered micrometer divided into square twelfths of an inch.

From The Red Thumb Mark by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

Indeed, eleven twelfths of the members were either dependents of the court, or zealous Cavaliers from the country.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

The cheek nailed on to them, named the "bench," or by some the "box," and made fast by means of dove-tailed tenons, is one hole thick and seven twelfths of a hole in height.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio


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