twenty
- numeral
- /ˈtwɛnti/
- There are twenty students in the classroom working on their assignments.
- twenty years
- twenty-first century
- twenty-first
I mean, I hope he's a twenty term leader.
- I mean, I hope he's a twenty term leader.
- Anderson Cooper maybe has twenty of his greatest hits online.
- I had her twenty months ago and a thing I I've feelings I've never felt.
- So twenty kinds of orgasms really net out into three kinds of orgasms.
- And I felt like this author and his twenty year work understands how we got to where we are today.
- And I regret not not spending twenty days a year with Lizzie before we had kids when I easily could have.
- And I think it's more important to have twenty shots at this dream that we're all pursuing than to have one shot.
- Now that we are essentially a single tribe to want to save an elephant if it means killing twenty humans.
- A single sky scan from LSSD, the thing it's going to do every three days, is equivalent to the entire SDSS over its twenty year lifetime.
- the the way you stay nimble is by making decisions fast. In a twenty person startup company, the decision making speed is so quick
- As in like there's twenty goals, one creator and we go, OK, we tell you what to do and what to say during these days.
- Well, first of all, you need like, you know, a twenty tweet thread to even begin to broach any kind of nuance to take on anything.
- Emily in the act, I said a twenty.
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His essays have appeared in over twenty publications in the last five years, including the Kyoto Journal.
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There are a lot of steps to machining out twenty of these.
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We can get another twenty runs!
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And I think it's more important to have twenty shots at this dream that we're all pursuing than to have one shot.
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- Give me two twenty packs, please, Jimmy.
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Twenty cents for the night shift!
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And Lamborghini built just twenty of these for the entire world.
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Twenty years I've studied the animal kingdom.
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Think of a chain that has not one type of bead, but has twenty types of beads.
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I just can't imagine being older than twenty-two; I have no experience at it.
Fiction book (1990)
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A card game where players try to get closer to 21 than the dealer without going over
A small gun that fires light bullets and does not push back much for target practice
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Etymology
Twenty comes from an old English way of saying 'two tens' and is made from two and ten, so you can think of 20 as two groups of ten. That's why twenty means the number 20.