twenty-one

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One hundred twenty-one of the 594 athletes on the American team — more than one in five — are from the state.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2024

At least twenty-one people have died in southern Brazil, after a cyclone made landfall in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2023

But twenty-one states, including Georgia and New York, still keep homebuyers in the dark.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2023

Then in 1928, the vote was extended to women twenty-one and older.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

The other complicated kanji Hanako knew also had twenty-one strokes, and it meant “demon.”

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata