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fifty

noun

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Recent Examples of fifty Until the start of the seventies and especially throughout the fifties, Fiedler was discerning without being snobbish, avant-garde without being faddish. — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026 Meanwhile, Vladimir is a slyly subversive 2022 novel about academia in which a once beautiful English professor, referred to only as M, has begun to feel the effects of aging in her late fifties, while her husband is just reaching his prime. — Literary Hub, 14 May 2026 But this doesn’t make characters in their forties and fifties old. — Literary Hub, 7 May 2026 Between 1960 and 1990, the median age of members of Congress was in the early fifties. — Samuel Moyn, Harpers Magazine, 21 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fifty

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Noun

Artscape is considered one of the largest free arts festivals on the East Coast, attracting tens of thousands of visitors over the two-day event.

— CBS Baltimore, CBS News, 13 Nov. 2026
During the dictatorship, at least 3,095 people were killed or forcibly disappeared, according to government figures, and tens of thousands more were tortured or jailed for political reasons.

— Nayara Batschke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2026

Definition of ten

Noun

During a Saturday ceremony inside The Betsy Hotel, Anderson was presented with a new set of medals and uniforms to replace the ones that went missing.

— Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2026
The former general reiterated on Tuesday that his goal was a government that all Israelis could trust, not one that represents only certain factions.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of one

Noun

At five-on-five, San Jose outscored teams 73-56 with Celebrini on the ice; the Sharks were outscored 113-90 otherwise.

— Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2026
The five that vaulted were Steele Canyon (tied for fourth), Del Norte (tied for seventh), Torrey Pines (tied for seventh), Westview (ninth) and Helix (10th).

— John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2026

Definition of five

Noun

The war has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties.

— Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 2 Nov. 2026
The crash prompted the evacuation of hundreds of people from 77 mobile homes in the area, county officials said following the NTSB briefing.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of hundred

Noun

That is just a fraction of the more than $100 million in sales the brand was said to have logged in 2012, six years after twenty-something Sophia Amoruso started the business as an eBay store.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 15 Sep. 2026
Ten or so attendees in their twenties and thirties settled across sofas, while a lo-fi YouTube music video was projected on a large screen, which mostly seemed to display a kitten wearing headphones.

— Patricia Marx, New Yorker, 15 June 2026

Definition of twenty

Noun

At the other end of the market, have a Chelsea dual-action pump for a fiver.

— Tim Spiers, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2026
Since movie-ticket purchases are not necessary, customers can just grab a bucket and a fiver (plus tax), and Netflix and chill with way too much popcorn for however many people fit on your couch.

— Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 2 Jan. 2026

Definition of fiver

Noun

Children's programs across Florida are set to lose millions of dollars in funding following voters' passage of Amendment 3.

— Bri Buckley, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2026
In each instance, a worker or family member at these companies took an emergency medical helicopter, often at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars per trip.

— Bob Herman, STAT, 11 Nov. 2026

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