twenty-four
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 20 plus 4.
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a symbol for this number, as 24 or XXIV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
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Bitcoin briefly topped $70,000 over the weekend but is now down 2.5% to $68,750 in the past twenty-four hours.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
“In the last twenty-four hours, my phone has become next to useless as I’ve received so many incoming messages and calls. It’s crazy,” he told MarketWatch in an interview.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 8, 2026
A total of twenty-four employees across the business have been made redundant.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2023
Around three of its sides sit twenty-four audience members.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
The ship they were particularly anxious to get quickly into port was the Aleksandrovsk, a freighter carrying twenty-four hydrogen bomb warheads for intermediate-range missiles, along with forty-four tactical nuclear warheads.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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