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TWO WEEKS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A period of fourteen consecutive days
Example:
most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight
Synonyms:
fortnight; two weeks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("two weeks" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Context examples:
The mice showed significant protection against tumor development, with the greatest protection when challenged two weeks after treatment with SA-4-1BBL.
(Immune Stimulant Molecule Protects against Cancer Development, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A storm of tiny dust particles has engulfed much of Mars over the last two weeks and prompted NASA’s Opportunity rover to suspend science operations.
(Martian Dust Storm Grows Global: Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze, NASA)
It can take months for a bruise to fade, but most last about two weeks.
(Bruises, NIH)
Two weeks afterward, the mice lacking FOXO3 continued to have severe hearing loss, but the normal mice seemed to mostly recover their hearing.
(Protein involved in hearing loss recovery, NIH)
As early as two weeks after transplantation, the SEN mice showed impaired physical function as determined by maximum walking speed, muscle strength, physical endurance, daily activity, food intake, and body weight.
(Senolytic drugs reverse damage caused by senescent cells in mice, National Institutes of Health)
Men had an average of 44 headers in two weeks and women had an average of 27.
(Soccer Players: More Headers, More Concussions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Two weeks prior to nerve crush, the scientists used gene therapy to cause the retinal ganglion cells to overexpress mTOR.
(Visual activity regenerates neural connections between eye and brain, NIH)
You can think that I looked out when I came to Charlington Heath, and there, sure enough, was the man, exactly as he had been the two weeks before.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was aware of vague memories of rain and wind and snow, but whether he had been beaten by the storm for two days or two weeks he did not know.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It's ben fifty below for two weeks now.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
