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
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
The record, her twelfth studio release and a collaboration with “Red,” “1989” and “Reputation” producers Max Martin and Shellback,” has received . . . mixed reviews.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025
L was also the twelfth letter in the alphabet and one of the twelve pentominoes.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
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
You see, Jervis, we have photographed the thumb-print in contact with a numbered micrometer divided into square twelfths of an inch.
From The Red Thumb Mark by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
I bear the eleven- twelfths of you in my heart—I shall nominate the Deputies to the two series which are vacant, and I shall reduce the Legislative Body to the discharge of its proper duties.
From Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 12 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Costing eleven twelfths as much as before, the article must sell eight sevenths as freely—which is possible only when it thrusts itself extensively into the place of other consumers' goods.
From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by John Bates Clark
This pica body is divided into twelfths, which are termed "points," and every type body consist of a given number of these points.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section T, U, V, and W by Project Gutenberg
