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
The six northern counties, largely Protestant, voted to remain part of the United Kingdom, but the other twenty-six formed the Irish Free State and received dominion status in the British Empire.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 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
“How is it twenty-six fifty to send a package?”
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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