Thesaurus results for TWENTY-TWO

twenty-two

noun

variants or .22

Definition of twenty-two

as in musket

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Recent Examples of twenty-two The National Weather Service reported winds of twenty-two miles an hour in the area at the time, with gusts of up to thirty-two miles per hour. — News Desk, Artforum, 19 Oct. 2026 Last November, on twenty-two acres of traditional tribal territory, the Fond du Lac Band Fire Program led the first intentional burn in generations. — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 The official Soviet news agency Tass said the artificial moon, with a diameter of twenty-two inches and a weight of 184 pounds, was circling the earth once every hour and thirty-five minutes. — The Learning Network, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026 Another bettor won nearly a million dollars for correctly identifying twenty-two out of twenty-three of Google’s top search terms for 2025. — Finn Brunton, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for twenty-two

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There were about sixty of them aboard the Cuyahoga Packet, and they were armed with swords and muskets.

— J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026
The ink came from the buds of oak leaves, swollen to the size of musket balls by the eggs of wasps.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of musket

Noun

The blunderbuss of violations of the basic decorum and dignity of democracy have become such a daily matter that the increasingly familiar response is to sigh and surrender.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2026
Trump would also stop treating the Europeans as enemies with his blunderbuss tariffs.

— Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025

Definition of blunderbuss

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Challenger 3 drives demand The new facility will support Britain’s Challenger 3 tank program, which will use a 120mm smoothbore gun.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026
At least three states — Hawaii, Ohio and North Dakota — treat a smoothbore musket the same as an AK-47 or AR-15.

— Allen G. Breed, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026

Definition of smoothbore

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The Ottomans deployed field artillery and Janissary infantry armed with matchlocks in a defensive formation called tabur jangi, in which carts and wagons were used to build barricades on the battlefield.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
The birth of ‘gunpowder warfare’ can be traced back to the 15th century and the invention of the matchlock gun, the first mechanical firing device.

— Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026

Definition of matchlock

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