dozen

[duhz-uhn] / ˈdʌz ən /

NOUN

twelve

Synonyms

STRONGEST

twelve xii

WEAK

boxcars dodecahedral

Example Sentences

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Mark Barrocas, CEO of SharkNinja, invited two dozen students to a two-day AI hackathon in April to build tools including one that crunches market-trend data to help identify new potential product lines.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Israel's military issued evacuation warnings for more than a dozen villages in Lebanon's south and the eastern Bekaa valley.

From Barron's • May 24, 2026

On a typical night, more than a dozen will strike.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

More than a dozen similar fossils stored in museums were eventually linked to the newly identified predator.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2026

Intending to expose the fraud, he asked the Fox sisters to demonstrate their ‘spirits’ for more than a dozen of America’s most famous men.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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