twelve
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It has cookie dough, because sometimes hospitality means baking twelve cookies for friends, and sometimes it means baking two for yourself while standing barefoot in the kitchen.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
“The global situation has continued to deteriorate over the past twelve months,” Chief Executive Oliver Blume said in a recorded message following the meeting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Researchers identified bones there belonging to at least twelve Neanderthals.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
They forecast USDCNY6.70 in six months and 6.5 in twelve.
From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026
Any joy she had once taken in dancing had left her, as had her grandiose dreams of being, at twelve years old, the youngest prima ballerina in the history of ballet.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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
As for the mammoth "coffee grinder" winches vital for racing twelves, no one had seen anything like them in France.
From Time Magazine Archive
He liked eights best, but he’d settle for fours, sixes, twelves, sixteens, any even number, really.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
