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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, “Eleven elevens, a hundred twenty-one.”

From The New Yorker • Sep. 17, 2012

The date on Friday will be Nov. 11, 2011, and the triple play of elevens — being rendered as 11/11/11, 11-11-11 and 11.11.11 — is inspiring a commercialized celebration on Madison Avenue.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2011

He loves sevens and elevens as well, but within the phrases of five, he will have different parts of the beat looped in threes, fives and sevens a lot as well.

From The Guardian • Jan. 27, 2011

The way it works with dice, if you shave just a bit off one side, you supposed to be able to roll more sevens and elevens.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson