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
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
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
Lancelot’s hair, which had already turned badger-grey when he first came back from his madness as a fellow of twenty-six, was quite white.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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