twenty-six
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 20 plus 6.
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a symbol for this number, as 26 or XXVI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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“The Bedford Park Fire Department, along with multiple Fire Department agencies from surrounding jurisdictions, transported twenty-six patients to area hospitals for treatment,” police said in a news release.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
“Yes, identities behind those payments were obscured by pseudonymous addresses, long strings of between twenty-six and thirty-five characters,” Greenberg writes.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2022
Clemente Pereida, the immigrant at the center of the case, came to the United States from Mexico twenty-six years ago.
From Slate ● Mar. 9, 2021
Naval Academy, labels its text “the twenty-six words that created the internet.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2020
We had to assume that the letter a was worth one cent, b two cents, c three cents—and so on, making the letter z worth twenty-six cents.
From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea
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