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- adjective five years of age
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Examples
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But does it also have something to do with the notion of five-year-old girls being allowed to dine outdoors together on a bench between their two homes, no grownups lurking overhead?
NYT > Home Page By PAMELA PAUL 2011
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The next day the newspaper read, “Their five-year-old daughter, bathed in the blood of her mother, was screaming and screaming.”
I’ll Walk Alone Mary Higgins Clark 2011
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Watching the video she realized this was the tune her five-year-old had been singing for weeks.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Of Madness and Muslim Martyrdom: The Ideal Age of Indoctrination MD Qanta Ahmed 2011
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The pretty five-year-old child was enunciating every word perfectly, in a highly produced, moving hymn to martyrdom.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Of Madness and Muslim Martyrdom: The Ideal Age of Indoctrination MD Qanta Ahmed 2011
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Watching the video she realized this was the tune her five-year-old had been singing for weeks.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Of Madness and Muslim Martyrdom: The Ideal Age of Indoctrination MD Qanta Ahmed 2011
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I tried to follow the direction we were heading, but Ethan kept punching the buttons on the limo door, turning the radio off and on, the lighting off and on, and rolling the window up and down like a five-year-old child.
My Fair Succubi Jill Myles 2011
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“A . . . new . . . skater,” another said, equally loudly but also very slowly, moving his lips a lot like he was talking to a deaf five-year-old.
Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011
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The housekeeper, a young woman of twenty-eight, lived in the basement with her husband and five-year-old daughter.
I’ll Walk Alone Mary Higgins Clark 2011
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That spring, a five-year-old girl was admitted to a hospital in Minamata, the largest city on Kyushu, the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan.
The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011
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Watching the video she realized this was the tune her five-year-old had been singing for weeks.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: Of Madness and Muslim Martyrdom: The Ideal Age of Indoctrination MD Qanta Ahmed 2011
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