And then there's The Wire, where "twentysomething" is an epithet in David Simon's idealized Baltimore Sun newsroom. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Brown: The Wire and Cloverfield: Bad Weekend for 20-Somethings] Reference
The Sharks were completely powerless against Anaheim's big "twentysomething" line of, which combined for three of the four goals and racked up six points. From Wordnik.com. [NHL.com Feature Stories] Reference
He says the real challenge will be to inspire twentysomething voters. From Wordnik.com. [Korea's 'Generation 386'] Reference
Indeed, they are more liberal and political than twentysomething Koreans. From Wordnik.com. [OUT WITH THE OLD] Reference
"" Every day is a struggle, '' a twentysomething trader named Eric Opperman told them. From Wordnik.com. [Fast, Yes. Easy? No.] Reference
"Did you ever watch the tapes?" she asks her twentysomething daughter hovering nearby. From Wordnik.com. [Theater: 'Ring' a Ding Ding] Reference
In the 1970s twentysomething Manhattan women gathered for consciousness-raising groups. From Wordnik.com. [Not Their Mothers' Choices] Reference
YET AGAIN, PRESIDENT CLINTON HAD HIS arm around the shoulder of an attractive twentysomething. From Wordnik.com. [Not A Tattoo Or A Harley In Sight] Reference
You got a dozen La Bohemers, these twentysomething kids all tatted up and on bikes, just watching. From Wordnik.com. [East Side Story] Reference
Property prices are now eight times higher than the median earnings of the ordinary twentysomething. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Youth of Europe] Reference
In other words, you don't have to be jealous of brash, twentysomething Internet millionaires anymore. From Wordnik.com. [New Valley Rules] Reference
Wang Hai, a twentysomething worker, has become a Chinese-style Ralph Nader, exposing counterfeit products. From Wordnik.com. [A Land With Lawyers--But Not Enough Law] Reference
Megan Hustad: Recent grads, twentysomething or older, who would normally never pick up a book of good advice. From Wordnik.com. [Hate Your Job?] Reference
"" You think Muslim, you think Saddam Hussein, you think ayatollah, '' says one Muslim-American twentysomething. From Wordnik.com. [The New Islam] Reference
But the smartly dressed twentysomething didn't want the group to move away from the stage, or to check their coats. From Wordnik.com. [Rock On] Reference
The only thing is, Bloom isn't a teenager or a twentysomething college student -- she's a 58-year-old art historian. From Wordnik.com. [Netting Friends Online] Reference
My twentysomething relative, a.k.a. [email protected], was born A.C. (after computers) with a mouse in his hand. From Wordnik.com. [E-Mail: The Future Of The Family Feud?] Reference
For twentysomething women, "to do a Hillary" means offering a husband or male friend useful advice on life's hard choices. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Then And Now] Reference
What saddens boomer women who love Hillary is that their twentysomething daughters don't share their view of her heroic role. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary and the Invisible Women] Reference
He's a twentysomething student at a topnotch Beijing university, and he's adept at using all the latest Internet technologies. From Wordnik.com. [These Surfers Do It Their Own Way] Reference
As a twentysomething woman, I support Hillary not because she is a woman, but because I want a president with proven competence. From Wordnik.com. [A Forum on Gender, Class and Power] Reference
As a twentysomething from Philadelphia in 1993, Beth Griffin's only image of the South came from "" Eyes on the Prize '' footage. From Wordnik.com. [South Toward Home] Reference
Their two twentysomething sons, Jamie and Edmund, are embittered and stunted by their father's tyranny and their mother's addiction. From Wordnik.com. [Theater Review: 'Long Day's Journey Into Night'] Reference
(Among the causes was his promotion of Mary Cunningham, then his twentysomething executive assistant, to vice president in 15 months.). From Wordnik.com. [The Bad News Board] Reference
"The RSS teaches you how to be a real man," says Vivek Pahuja, a twentysomething software engineer who joined when he was 7 years old. From Wordnik.com. [Gods In The Classroom] Reference
Xers have every right to be cynical about Hollywood's motives in merchandising their twentysomething angst for mainstream delectation. From Wordnik.com. [Romancing The Stoned] Reference
As a twentysomething woman, I support Hillary Clinton not because she is a woman but because I want a president with proven competence. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Debating Hillary] Reference
I think a lot of it, at twentysomething, is about finding a balance between where you're from, your traditions and where you're living. From Wordnik.com. [‘People Were Afraid of Me’] Reference
To fully gauge Intel's day-to-day effect on Costa Rica, you have to look at the daily lives of the 2,000, mostly twentysomething workers. From Wordnik.com. [A Silicon Republic] Reference
Fox's "Melrose Place" shapes up as a sort of twentysomething "90210," which was originally envisioned as a teensomething "thirtysomething.". From Wordnik.com. [Sorry, Wrong Zip Code] Reference
And, in the most resonant strand here, a frazzled twentysomething widow named Lusa Maluf Landowski tries to make a go of her farm after her husband's truck jackknifes. From Wordnik.com. [Getting Back To Nature] Reference
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