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twentieth English
Meaning twentieth meaning
What does twentieth mean?
Definitions in simple English
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Synonyms twentieth synonyms
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Simple sentences
Today is October twentieth.
I'll arrive on October twentieth.
It may safely be said that he is the greatest pianist in the twentieth century.
One out of 455 women doesn't realize she's pregnant until the twentieth week of pregnancy.
Tom celebrated his twentieth birthday last week.
The United States faced a Bubonic plague epidemic at the beginning of the twentieth century.
As Meva's parents we visited Dresden to celebrate her twentieth birthday. We took took the opportunity to explore this beautiful city.
Tom's birthday is October twentieth.
Tom's contract expires October twentieth.
I'll arrive on the twentieth of October.
Today is the twentieth of October.
Today's the twentieth of October.
It's October the twentieth.
Today's October twentieth.
In the course of the twentieth century all this changed.
He is lost in the twentieth century.
Antibiotics were discovered at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Were you born in the twentieth century?
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was one of the foremost astrophysicists of the twentieth century.
Today my wife and I are celebrating our twentieth wedding anniversary.
My birthday is on the twentieth of July.
Tom will turn thirty on October twentieth.
Tom turned thirty on October twentieth.
Tom died of heart failure on October twentieth at the age of 93.
Today is Friday, the twentieth of October.
Movie subtitles
The hearing is set for the twentieth of this month.
A slave that is not twentieth part the worth of your true lord.
One twentieth costs you only 20 centavos.
Give me a twentieth so I don't have to look at your ugly face.
They're pretty hot about it at Twentieth, except Zanuck's all wet.
With a twentieth of a cent a point.
It's just, well, there we were in the late eighteenth century and I tried another frequency to sidestep the ship back into the middle of the twentieth century.
Oh please, don't keep talking on the twentieth-century level!
The twentieth century might be the last in the series, should madam your cousin fuck up.
Ah well, the problem is; coming back to the twentieth century my dear, the TARDIS, I'm afraid, is often mistaken for the real Police-Box!
It's your twentieth month of interrogations.
The Twentieth Regiment of the Armoured Division has reached the river bank.
Steiger, this is the twentieth century!
Twentieth Century Zone.
The Magic Empire of the Twentieth Century!
He was born Richmond Reed Carradine, but his name was changed to John Carradine when he went under contract to Twentieth Century Fox in 1935.
His unit is shooting at Twentieth Century Fox this morning.
They're pretty hot about it over at Twentieth, except I think Zanuck's all wet.
Sometimes there'd be a little bridge game in the house, at a twentieth of a cent a point.
Yes, but in the twentieth century, it's not only unconventional, it's unheard of.
A WARM AND WINNING TWENTIETH CENTURY ODDBALL ABOUT A MILE AND A HALF FROM THE NORM.
A branch of your museum, the standard flat in the second half of the twentieth century.
Twentieth century.
Twentieth floor, sir.
Twentieth floor, all clear.
And outside in the darkness among the bats of the twentieth century is the bill collector.
Oh, Benjamin Rush, attorney at law. Living in the twentieth century?
Don't forget we're not in the twentieth century.
Twentieth-century vessel.
Shelley celebrated her twentieth birthday with some friends.
It is operating again in the twentieth century time zone and it must be them.
Twentieth.
In these cards, more exactly, in this holes, you can find, all the wisdom of the twentieth century.
News and current affairs
But the 1945 consensus was dealt a much greater blow precisely when we all rejoiced at the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the other great twentieth-century tyranny.
For one thing, the divisive war in Iraq may turn out to be the last act of the twentieth century rather than a harbinger of the twenty-first.
That is the remarkable story of the twentieth century.
Both Israel and the US are nostalgic for a twentieth-century world of nation-states, which is understandable, since that is the world to which the kind of conventional power they possess is best suited.
Similarly, two twentieth-century US presidents, Woodrow Wilson and George W. Bush, were good at articulating an ambitious foreign-policy vision, but were poor at refining and reshaping their vision when they encountered implementation challenges.
It is just this kind of reasoning ability that improved during the twentieth century.
Once upon a time, such contracts were enforced by armed intervention, as Mexico, Venezuela, Egypt, and a host of other countries learned at great cost in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The answer is that the kind of power that big banks wield today is very different from what was imagined by the Sherman Act's drafters - or by the people who shaped its application in the early years of the twentieth century.
For most of the twentieth century, programmers were patently unsuccessful in designing chess computers that could compete with the best humans.
The Franco-German relationship, central to much twentieth-century conflict, now forms the core of modern Europe.
For example, until the second half of the twentieth century, today's eurozone members regularly slaughtered each other on centuries of battlefields.
The same applies to the two greatest European criminals of the twentieth century.
This great twentieth century myth has now been shattered.
Financial empire building drove late twentieth-century globalization.
It is easy to predict that Sarajevo will be the place where they will meet to look back on Europe's savage twentieth century.
Hailed in Europe as one of the great novels of the twentieth century, Blinding arrived in America only after a great delay, and never received the attention that it deserved.
NEW YORK - Next year will mark the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of communism in Europe.
In the second half of the twentieth century, the US showed that committed leadership could help to ensure widespread stability and prosperity.
In the second half of the twentieth century, Thai elections seemed to alternate with military coups.
After the various revolutions in the early decades of the twentieth century, Confucianism was replaced by a Chinese version of Communism.
That was true in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and it remains true today.
The site offers a stark reminder that humans' simple, physical presence in a habitat is more damaging than one of the twentieth century's worst environmental catastrophes.
But, whereas the Europe's bloody wars in the first half of the twentieth century have made war there unthinkable today, the wars in Asia in the second half of the twentieth century, far from settling or ending disputes, only accentuated bitter rivalries.