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n. - The time of life between 20 and 30; The decade from 1920 to 1929.

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  • I counted out the four hundred dollars in twenties to make sure it was all there.
  • I always laugh when an actor in his lower twenties is given the role of the Ph.D. in a film.
  • If the keynote of the writers of the twenties is ‘tragic sense of life’, the keynote of the new writers is ‘serious purpose’.
  • Your twenties are the most creative decade of your life.
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