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half a dozen

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. six, 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexadnoun

    the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one

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  1. half a dozen

    Half a dozen generally refers to the quantity of six, as a dozen is typically defined as twelve.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of half a dozen in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of half a dozen in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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  1. Mike Pompeo:

    These were attacks by The Islamic Republic of Iran on commercial shipping, on the freedom of navigation, with a clear intent to deny transit through the Strait [ of Hormuz ], the intelligence community has lots of data, lots of evidence -- the world will come to see much of it. But the American people should rest assured we have high confidence with respect to who conducted these attacks as well as half a dozen other attacks throughout the world over the past 40 days.

  2. Paul Ryan:

    And we need it, as Americans, for half a dozen reasons, one is, the Russians tried to interfere with our elections. Two, the Russians are not only bad actors, but they live off of chaos that they continue to try to create in our country.

  3. Dean Coleman:

    If one or two people control all the traits, there really isn't a lot of competition there, if you have half a dozen strong players it keeps them trying to provide the best for you and trying to get your business.

  4. Alex Bell:

    It is hard to overstate the importance of Rome, from Mount Aventine, there are no more than half a dozen major works by Turner left in private hands and this work must rank as one of the very finest.

  5. Rikki Klieman:

    I passionately wanted to do these stories, and I became even more passionate about telling these stories at a time when the discourse, the debate about policing in America, has taken a sharp turn, police are being defined by a half a dozen incidents instead of being defined by the people that they really are.


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