fifty

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Recent Examples of fifty Now in his fifties, Koze is approaching an age when people might rightly describe him as avuncular. Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025 The nineteen-forties and fifties were supposedly an era of liberal consensus, when both parties agreed on the virtues of the welfare state and a U.S.-led international order. Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025 The 35-year-old bagged 12 centuries and 35 fifties in ODIs and had the highest score of 164 against New Zealand at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 2016. Manasi Pathak, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025 This mine looks like something out of the fifties because it was started in 1955. Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fifty
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fifty
Noun
  • During the same hearing, Sen. Guzmán made a push for $50 million in after-school programming, and said tens of thousands of students statewide lost after-school services in the last two years.
    Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2025
  • The addictive drug, precursors to which are mostly produced in China and Mexico, has led to tens of thousands of overdose deaths each year in the U.S. The subsequent tit-for-tat trade spat saw duties skyrocketing over 100% on exports from both countries.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • The indie film scene is a tough one and the overall marketplace crowded with new studio fare barreling into theaters at its fastest pace in months.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 4 May 2025
  • The families who manage this best are the ones who acknowledge it openly, and make space for honest conversations.
    Francois Botha, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
Noun
  • That’s because the Heat shot just 16 of 42 (38.1 percent) on two-point shots Saturday after shooting 26 of 36 (72.2 percent) on twos in Game 2.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Queen, the conference’s Freshman of the Year and first-team selection, drained 2 of 4 3-pointers — doubling his season total — and connected on a few more long twos.
    Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The team has managed to do that at five-on-five, which has helped compensate for a somewhat underwhelming power play.
    Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • When the 2017 La Tuna fire broke out in the Verdugo Mountains, hundreds of notifications, tweets and statements were issued by the Los Angeles Fire Department, the report noted, but none was sent via NotifyLA, which reaches a larger audience of Angelenos.
    Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
  • The immediate impact of the Trump/Voight plan will be felt most strongly in the independent sector, among the hundreds of producers, distributors, sales agents and financiers heading to the Cannes film market.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Herb Baumeister, a businessman and father of three, is believed to have killed at least 25 men—primarily gay men in their twenties and thirties—between the mid-1980s and 1996.
    Jenna deJong, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
  • In his early twenties, Shapiro had joined a LACMA museum group that visited collectors’ homes.
    Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The report tracks a decline in social connections—especially among young people—and shows that half of adults are lonely, linking it to billions of dollars in health care costs.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
  • Trump has issued similar executive orders targeting four other law firms, while at least nine law firms have entered into controversial deals with the White House, offering millions of dollars in pro bono work on causes supported by conservatives to avoid being targeted.
    Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 3 May 2025

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“Fifty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fifty. Accessed 20 May. 2025.

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