twenty-one
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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
For twenty-one years she ruled over a prosperous and dominant Egypt, even conducting military campaigns into Nubia and possibly southern Palestine.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
The Seacrests listened for a telltale code: dvahd-tsaht awdeen, or "twenty-one."
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
