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  • noun The number after twenty-one and before twenty-three. Represented in Arabic digits as 22.
  • noun A .22 calibre pistol or rifle

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  • adjective being two more than twenty
  • noun the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-one and one
  • noun a .22 caliber firearm (pistol or rifle)

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Examples

  • In 1967 twenty-two states, plus Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, had banned housing discrimination.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • The plastic chairs lining the perimeter of the musty, airless room eventually fill as twenty-two girls and their two facilitators, one of whom is Elena Martínez, the parish receptionist, wander in.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • In 1967 twenty-two states, plus Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, had banned housing discrimination.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Testifying before a congressional committee in 1916 on the moral content of his films, Laemmle reported that he had sent a survey to twenty-two thousand theater owners titled “What Do You Want?”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Within weeks attorneys general from twenty-two states had signed on, and we submitted our brief to the U.S. Supreme Court.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Within weeks attorneys general from twenty-two states had signed on, and we submitted our brief to the U.S. Supreme Court.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Within weeks attorneys general from twenty-two states had signed on, and we submitted our brief to the U.S. Supreme Court.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • In 1967 twenty-two states, plus Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, had banned housing discrimination.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • At this point I had written twenty-two hefty checks to the James Gang, and others to Harry Teague.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • A few days later, the Swiss learned that the Thais had retrieved a computer containing twenty-two thousand files, which they copied onto a CD and sent to Switzerland.

    Fallout Catherine Collins 2011

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