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Recent Examples of fifty
An ex-marine officer during the late fifties, his business leadership style was swashbuckling, colorful, and highly focused.
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Chip Bell, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
On Instagram, Schmitt shares clips from her longer videos and some original content as well — including OOTD posts and sneak-peeks into her own fabulous fifties.
—Carmen Rios, Flow Space, 7 July 2025
His overseas average in New Zealand, South Africa, Australia and England comes to just under 26 with two fifties in 11 Tests.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Carol Sutton Lewis: In the late fifties, scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission were finding new information about a radioactive isotope called Strontium 90.
—Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 18 June 2025
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Chip Bell, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
On Instagram, Schmitt shares clips from her longer videos and some original content as well — including OOTD posts and sneak-peeks into her own fabulous fifties.
—Carmen Rios, Flow Space, 7 July 2025
His overseas average in New Zealand, South Africa, Australia and England comes to just under 26 with two fifties in 11 Tests.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Carol Sutton Lewis: In the late fifties, scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission were finding new information about a radioactive isotope called Strontium 90.
—Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fifty
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For generations, Social Security, which celebrated its 90th anniversary on August 14, has formed the bedrock of retirement income for tens of millions of Americans, and also pays out benefits to disabled people and survivors of deceased workers.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Aug. 2025
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For months, federal investigators have been examining how tens of millions of dollars has been distributed among Hartford nonprofits, some of which play a vital role across the city’s economically distressed north side.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
17 Aug. 2025
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And no one wants to be reduced to a nameless fulfillment partner in someone else’s ecosystem.—
Jason Goldberg,
Forbes.com,
9 Aug. 2025
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Like so many families, and not just Irish ones, United brought him closer to his relatives.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
8 Aug. 2025
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All the twos and threes and ones converged among the skeletons, still avoiding eye contact.—
Clare Sestanovich,
New Yorker,
13 July 2025
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But in Chicago and other cities, there are quieter operations underway that raise similar legal questions as federal agents pick up people in ones, twos and threes.—
Vernal Coleman,
ProPublica,
25 Mar. 2025
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Jackson’s contract is roughly market value for backup centers, perhaps even on the lower end for one of the better reserve fives in the league.—
Tony East,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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The Sabres had a 16-10 advantage in scoring chances with him on the ice at five-on-five.—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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The Trump administration has pursued a restrictive immigration policy that features the detention of undocumented immigrants at work sites and the revocation of Temporary Protected Status – a form of temporary legal status – for hundreds of thousands of immigrants.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
16 Aug. 2025
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The science center delivers STEM learning experiences to hundreds of thousands of school students, and serves as a hub for community events, traveling exhibitions, and science programming.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
16 Aug. 2025
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Patterson, Judge, and Daniels were all inspired by their own experiences as parents with children in their twenties while writing Bobby’s storyline of navigating early adulthood, and particularly with Hank’s storyline of learning how to let Bobby make his own decisions in life.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
5 Aug. 2025
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The reason for the parallel resonance of gambler and magician lies partly in timing: both are icons of the twenties, the dawn of an era when local legends became national celebrities.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Evangeline picks up an orange that one of Hank’s hillbillies drops, perhaps because in Alaska during winter that’s like finding a fiver.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
28 Jan. 2024
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Now a lot of Main Street is boarded up, even the fancy stores, although there’s no shortage of places to drop a fiver on a cup of coffee.—
Murr Brewster,
The Christian Science Monitor,
31 Jan. 2022
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And the company splashed out hundreds of millions of dollars this time last year to grab rights for some NBA games, including some that will air only on Peacock each week.—
David Bloom,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Instead, the real meat on the bones is secondary tariffs of 100% on importers of Russian energy, such as India and China, who indirectly provide the Kremlin with tens of billions of dollars that finance its war effort.—
Daniel DePetris,
Time,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Fifty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fifty. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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