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Recent Examples of numeral
Second, on the first, eighth, 15th, 22nd, and 29th day of each month, the small date display between 4 and 5 o’clock swaps its numerals for an illustration of a three-scoop ice cream cone.
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Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Note the pink gold chronograph, Ref. 530, which is one of only about 140 examples produced (and only 30 in pink gold) and the rare Ref. 570 with a three-tone dial and applied Breguet numerals.
—Nancy Olson, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
People can make their own pope jerseys at the team store (some have even used Roman numerals for the XIV), but the team won’t be selling chintzy T-shirts or making the players wear City Connect cassocks.
—Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 14 May 2025
Silent letters will fade, and the old spellings will go the way of Roman numerals.
—Gabe Henry, Time, 15 Apr. 2025
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Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
Note the pink gold chronograph, Ref. 530, which is one of only about 140 examples produced (and only 30 in pink gold) and the rare Ref. 570 with a three-tone dial and applied Breguet numerals.
—Nancy Olson, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
People can make their own pope jerseys at the team store (some have even used Roman numerals for the XIV), but the team won’t be selling chintzy T-shirts or making the players wear City Connect cassocks.
—Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 14 May 2025
Silent letters will fade, and the old spellings will go the way of Roman numerals.
—Gabe Henry, Time, 15 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for numeral
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The Giants led 8-2 heading into the sixth inning with Webb on the mound, which is typically the kind of win probability that comes in three digits instead of two.—
Grant Brisbee,
New York Times,
12 July 2025
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Walker rejected the committees’ effort to block that part of the law and turned down a request to block a requirement that petition gatherers register with the state and provide their names, addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of Social Security numbers.—
Dara Kam,
The Orlando Sentinel,
9 July 2025
Noun
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Kim did not specify the number of employees who could be affected or the units that would see layoffs.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Collecting 16 games of action last year, the numbers were back up in a big way.—
Justin Grasso,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 July 2025
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“Numeral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/numeral. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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