dozen
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- noun
- /ˈdʌzən/
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docena
- We bought a box that holds a dozen eggs.
- dozens of countries
- dozens of species
- dozens of designs
He was in a locked upstairs ward for a dozen adolescent boys.
- He was in a locked upstairs ward for a dozen adolescent boys.
- So probably about a dozen scripts in total.
- I retested this at least a dozen times, and here we are.
- And there are about a dozen that have applied more or less.
- You show it a window of a dozen words on a test corpus.
- He can hang out and just observe things for a dozen hours without a twitch.
- The first might be I'm going to research a dozen new markets this year.
- And they were like a dozen stats on that game.
- Let's do what Intel does, or an Oracle or half a dozen other strategic funds.
- Now the earth is surfaced by about a dozen shells.
- I was accused of a couple dozen shootings and it was just done.
- There were so many cards, like over a dozen and it was just like really bulky.
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So probably about a dozen scripts in total.
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And I mean, we're talking about a dozen people.
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And there are about a dozen that have applied more or less.
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I would say start with about a dozen for this size bottle.
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Great big book with about a dozen smart people discussing politics.
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And I was chagrined to find a dozen Christmas trees were submitted.
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I'd say we've got maybe a dozen inside.
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So these boxes are all the parts for a dozen gaming rigs.
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He was in a locked upstairs ward for a dozen adolescent boys.
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We've counted about a dozen Grad rocket impacts so far.
Synonyms
Idioms
Two choices that are almost the same and make no real difference
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Etymology
The word dozen comes from old words for 'twelve'. It was built from parts like duo ('two') and decem ('ten'), so a dozen is a set of twelve.