Synonyms for half a dozen
half a dozen

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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

   Synonyms:
   six, sise, sextet, hexad, sixsome, six-spot, sextuplet, sestet, sixer, sextette

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1. 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.

2. John Leahy:

   I'd say that we're talking to at least half a dozen (customers).

3. Sir Winston Churchill:

   It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.

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. Stevie Beer:

   A colleague out for lunch messaged to say there had been an incident on London Bridge and he was unable to cross back over the river. I went straight to the window and saw hundreds of people running off the bridge down Tooley Street, people looked so panicked. Stevie Beer was haunting. There were at least half a dozen police cars and halted buses. Our building is now on lockdown, but we've not been given any concrete information.