twelve
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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
“In fact, we’ve added more first-time users over the past twelve months than in any period over the past five years.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
It is his Excalibur, his Andúril, the vaunted weapon only he can string and use to hit a bullseye through a row of twelve crossed axes.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
“Overall, people are taking a rather pessimistic view of their financial situation over the next twelve months,” according to the survey’s authors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The date on the file was from twelve years before.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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 explained that he was quite sure there were more twelves involved.
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
