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
“If you’re coming and you’re over twenty-one, my question is, ‘why now?’” he explained, referring to the legal buying age in Florida.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 5, 2023
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 human genome contains about between twenty-one and twenty-three thousand genes that provide the master instructions to build, repair, and maintain humans.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
