baker's dozen

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There’s much to recommend from the remaining baker’s dozen of shortlisted international features, and voters could go any number of ways in winnowing the list down to five nominees.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 3, 2024

Analyzing the baker's dozen of mummies has only reinforced the team's conviction that the seemingly modest mice ascended the volcanoes without Incan assistance.

From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2023

Pondering “what makes a mistake larger than life, so all-encompassing that your life itself becomes a failure,” she had set out to research a baker’s dozen of “tragic architects” in America and Europe.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2022

Here are a baker’s dozen of my favorite dramas about love.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 11, 2022

His very own baker’s dozen, he would say, grinning.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi