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
Samira was going to turn twenty-one on Monday, June 22, 1998.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
