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
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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
On Iwo Jima, the Japanese sacrificed twenty-one thousand soldiers and inflicted twenty-six thousand casualties on U.S.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
And Last: God knows regular quipping’s not very challenging, but making you use eXactly twenty-six words, each one having a different first letter, is just plain zany.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2022
It has since become labeled as the “Magna Carta of the internet” and “the twenty-six words that created the internet.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
He’s got twenty-six by the time he’s through and those are only the ones he can think of off the top of his pink-streaked head.
From "The Misfits" by James Howe
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