twelfth
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"Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on the twelfth flight test of Starship!" the company wrote on X.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Much less familiar is Guglielmo of Malavalle, a twelfth century hermit venerated by the Augustinians for defeating a dragon using a simple wooden staff shaped like a pitchfork.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 2, 2026
The Patriots, who already boasted the most Super Bowl appearances with 11, will now have their twelfth showing on American football's biggest stage, and a chance to vie for a record seventh Lombardi trophy.
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
Their places in the line of succession will also stay the same, with Beatrice in ninth and Eugenie in twelfth place.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
In the twelfth century CE, the Mississippi Valley region was home to several large city-states that were built of earthen stepped pyramids much like those in Mexico.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
If there are two and a tenth waves or eleven twelfths of a wave of one note for every wave of another note, they don't fit together as well.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
The tenth of her revenue was always applied to the relief of the unfortunate, and was deposited by twelfths, each month, with her First Almoner.
From The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
Groups of sportsmen discuss the prospects of to-morrow in detail, and tell stories of ancient twelfths, while chieftains from London, in full Highland dress, are painfully conscious of the whiteness of their legs.
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Ian Maclaren
These loans will be repaid monthly by sixths or twelfths, at the choice of the borrower, commencing from the day on which he finds employment.
From Mysteries of Paris, V3 by Eugène Sue
And, in spite of all this coöperation, he still saw no production lines which spewed out antigrav units at some such rate as seventeen and five twelfths per second.
From Sense from Thought Divide by H. R. van Dongen
