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fifty

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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

In the twenty-tens, modern investigations made clear that the work was in danger of becoming distorted by this display, which would need to be redesigned.

— John Phipps, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Ting said that Votee trained its model for around $250,000—not a small amount but still significantly less than the tens of billions of dollars spent by AI developers like Anthropic and OpenAI.

— Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of ten

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The question asked by the team was how to bring a wave packet that has fallen back into contact with the one that stayed behind—the same atom on the other path—so that the two can interfere.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
After driving to the 1-yard line, Sean McVay called a quarterback sneak, one that ended with Stafford being enveloped in an avalanche of bodies, including Warner’s.

— Matt Barrows, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

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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
Logano is winless so far this season, and while there have been flashes—two top fives, a pole at Phoenix—there’s also been frustration.

— Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 6 May 2026

Definition of five

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Costs and noise When a data center adds hundreds of megawatts of near-constant demand, the costs don’t always stay with the company that caused them.

— Petala Ironcloud, ArsTechnica, 7 Sep. 2026
The power to the whole park has shut down for hours at a time, sometimes several times a day, with temperatures in the hundreds.

— Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of hundred

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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
The poll found parental tracking is more common with 18-20 year olds, compared to adults in their twenties.

— Allison Aubrey, NPR, 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

The shift injects yet another element of volatility into the work of the federal division in charge of administering billions of dollars in taxpayer funds to states and schools to help students with disabilities.

— Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
Which was a problem, because farmer checkoff dollars weren’t supposed to be used for political lobbying — yet here was a lobbying group making money by being the Pork Board’s primary contractor.

— Kenny Torrella, Vox, 9 Sep. 2026

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