fifties

Definition of fiftiesnext
plural of fifty

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Noun
  • Pharmaceutical companies must typically invest many years and hundreds of millions of dollars to win approval for a drug; partly for this reason, some promising treatments are never approved, and many arrive too late for people who urgently need them.
    Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Factor in a tax multiplier for those who repeatedly spend past the salary cap, and payroll expenses can include hundreds of millions in taxes.
    Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The movie includes footage of real historical tragedies — harrowing video from liberated concentration camps — along with contemporaneous ones, like the crash of PSA Flight 182, which happened less than two months before Faces of Death was released.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
  • For gamblers, especially younger ones who are just starting to earn and build the savings that will undergird their retirements, that can mean life-altering losses of wealth and financial stability.
    Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Investigators also found loaded guns and tens of thousands of dollars in cash.
    Jennifer Bisram, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Since 2017, a series of destructive wildfires has cost tens of billions of dollars, including last year’s Los Angeles firestorms.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • LaPour was the preseason Big 12 Pitcher of the Year and got his season off to a strong start against Vanderbilt, giving up two runs off fives hits in five innings of work with five strikeouts.
    Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Feb. 2026
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“Fifties.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fifties. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.

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