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[ twen-tee-three, twuhn- ] / ˈtwɛn tiˈθri, ˈtwʌn- /
nouna cardinal number, 20 plus 3. a symbol for this number, as 23 or XXIII. a set of this many persons or things. adjectiveamounting to 23 in number. Words nearby twenty-threeTwenty-sixth Amendment, twenty-third, Twenty-third Amendment, Twenty-third Psalm, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, twenty-three, twenty-twenty, twenty-twenty hindsight, twenty-two, 'twere, twerk Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for twenty-threeAt 10:05 the south tower shuddered and collapsed; twenty-three minutes later the north tower fell as well. The Resilient City: New York After 9/11|John Avlon|September 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST After all we were not so much to blame; Geneviève was eighteen, Boris was twenty-three, and I not quite twenty-one. Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show|Robert W. Chambers|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST The Jamaican Bobsled team is back, having already won about twenty-three golds in Kickstarting. The Olympics Are Already Two Days Old. This Is Your Test.|Kevin Bleyer|February 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST Twenty-three plaintiffs in the class-action suit against the NFL died this year. What's Really Killing Athletes With Concussions?|Dr. Anand Veeravagu, MD, Tej Azad|December 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Her words are promising, of course, to me at a ripe twenty-three years of age. French Women Don't Get Facelifts|Erin Cunningham|December 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST New Bedford's loss alone was twenty-three vessels, which, with their outfits, were valued at more than a million dollars. The Sea Rovers|Rufus Rockwell Wilson Near the head of the column but on one side rode a soldierly figure, apparently that of a young man of twenty-three or four. The Sword of Antietam|Joseph A. Altsheler He stated that he was twenty-three years of age, and that he did not know how to write. Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton|Anonymous The debate resulted in the adoption of the declaration by a vote of one hundred and forty-one against twenty-three. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology|John F. Hurst They make her out twenty-three at her last birthday, but she is twenty-four. Ayala's Angel|Anthony Trollope
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