twenty-one
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When she wrote “My Brilliant Career,” Miles Franklin—aka Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin—was just a kid, “a little bush girl, barely twenty-one yet.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
One hundred twenty-one of the 594 athletes on the American team — more than one in five — are from the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2024
“If you’re coming and you’re over twenty-one, my question is, ‘why now?’” he explained, referring to the legal buying age in Florida.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2023
At least twenty-one people have died in southern Brazil, after a cyclone made landfall in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2023
“There’s a keypad by the entryway. The code is twenty-one ST.”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
