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
The property qualifications for men were abolished in 1918, and all men twenty-one and older were allowed to vote.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
The Seacrests listened for a telltale code: dvahd-tsaht awdeen, or "twenty-one."
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
