twelve
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“As a result, they are more skeptical about their income expectations for the next twelve months.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Since 2013, Roblox says it has paid out more than $5 billion to creators, including $1.7 billion over the past twelve months.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Researchers assessed the participants again after three, six, and twelve months.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Anthony Darrell Hines, 66, who has maintained his innocence for four years and is bedridden, is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee on Thursday under the same protocol that failed twelve weeks ago with Carruthers.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
But Sadik and I, being twelve, feel too grown-up to play tag.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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We need to think about the world in terms of twelves!
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 7, 2019
Six seeds are 86-50 against the elevens, fives are 89-47 against twelves, and once you get to fours vs. thirteens, you're in never gonna happen territory.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 18, 2019
Your teacher chants, “Twelve twelves, a hundred thirty-four.”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2012
The biggest surprise came from New Zealand, which entered two innovative boats built not of wood or aluminum like traditional twelves but of fiber glass, prompting an instant nickname: plastic fantastics.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Then Sor Milagros, who was in charge of the tens through twelves, took our smaller group upstairs into the dormitory hall we would share.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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