five

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All but one of his five children had left the island because they didn’t see a future there.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

The company developed its products by sending pods of four to five engineers to work with customers for months at a time.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

That’s already in the top five of 5,000 Division-I women’s players this season.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

In fact, if SpaceX’s pitch goes through, it would rank behind only five companies in the S&P 500 Index — Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Nvidia and Amazon.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

I scrawl something unintelligible in the book and then set my plate awkwardly on the end table next to the sofa, ready to leave less than five minutes after I arrived.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse