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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural five children born from one mother in a single pregnancy.
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- noun Plural form of
quintuplet .
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Examples
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The premise of harried parents trying to raise quintuplets is interesting, but they do nothing with it.
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The premise of harried parents trying to raise quintuplets is interesting, but they do nothing with it.
Michael in Nashville 2004
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The Alexander Doll Co. got the exclusive rights to Canada's identical Dionne quintuplets, who lived at Quintland, a tourist attraction, until the age of 9.
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At first we thought that they were quintuplets but there had been nothing in the paper and that sort of thing still made the news.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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In 2005, 68 sets of quintuplets or more were born, compared with 13 in 1990.
Baby Boom 2009
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Pemba's voice is strong and soulful as it echoes across the mountain face, triggering an avalanche that wipes out a party of five below us who were trying to become the first set of quintuplets of Lithuanian descent to reach the summit.
My Quest to Bring Karaoke to Mt. Everest Con Chapman 2011
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The crowd kept screaming "Jerry!" every time Saltz appeared onscreen, which briefly confused ARTINFO into thinking we were at a taping of "Jerry Springer," and that there would be a twist where Simon de Pury is pregnant with psychic quintuplets.
ARTINFO: "WORK OF ART" RECAP: The Next Great Artist Was Chosen on TV, as Since Time Immemorial 2010
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Pemba's voice is strong and soulful as it echoes across the mountain face, triggering an avalanche that wipes out a party of five below us who were trying to become the first set of quintuplets of Lithuanian descent to reach the summit.
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Bonus Event: The Dionne quintuplets were born in Ontario, the first quints to survive infancy.
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The crowd kept screaming "Jerry!" every time Saltz appeared onscreen, which briefly confused ARTINFO into thinking we were at a taping of "Jerry Springer," and that there would be a twist where Simon de Pury is pregnant with psychic quintuplets.
ARTINFO: "WORK OF ART" RECAP: The Next Great Artist Was Chosen on TV, as Since Time Immemorial 2010
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