fifties

plural of fifty

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Noun
  • Associated PressThe folders included hundreds of images of court documents dating back years, along with video clips that appeared to show police body camera footage from searches and interviews conducted with victims.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Still, what’s missing from the public discourse about violence in Chicago is the realization that suicide, and not homicide alone, is silently taking the lives of hundreds of Black residents across the city.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That accolade fell to Arsenal, who dropped over £250m on new players then struggled to shift unwanted ones.
    James McNicholas, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • While this exact model is meant for the European market, Roborock has promised that similar ones will be making their way to the US soon.
    Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The partnership has delivered tens of millions in sales while giving PacSun visibility into which products and creators deliver results.
    Jamie Gutfreund, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • At the same time, lawmakers had capped the agency’s administrative funding just as tens of millions of Baby Boomers were aging into retirement, exploding Social Security’s rolls.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Fifties.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fifties. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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