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Recent Examples of fifty
Grossman hopes her experience can inspire single women in their forties, fifties and beyond.
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Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
In the nineteen-forties and fifties, the two strands of research came together in the work of Claude Shannon, a founder of information theory.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Partly because of the Administration’s projects, the building-trades unions have added fifty thousand new members in the past year—their most significant growth since the fifties.
—Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Bianca seems to at least be in her thirties, which would most likely mean her aunt is in her fifties or sixties.
—Marah Eakin, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
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Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
In the nineteen-forties and fifties, the two strands of research came together in the work of Claude Shannon, a founder of information theory.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Partly because of the Administration’s projects, the building-trades unions have added fifty thousand new members in the past year—their most significant growth since the fifties.
—Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Bianca seems to at least be in her thirties, which would most likely mean her aunt is in her fifties or sixties.
—Marah Eakin, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fifty
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The Hughes Fire broke out near Castaic in the Santa Clarita Valley on Wednesday morning and quickly spread to cover more than 10,000 acres, forcing tens of thousands of residents to flee or be prepared to leave their homes at a moment's notice.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA TODAY,
25 Jan. 2025
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Malibu resident Jessica Davis is part of an army of volunteers determined to help the tens of thousands of animals displaced by the deadly, destructive blazes Comments Ever since the Palisades Fire tore through her Malibu community on Jan. 7, Jessica Davis’s cellphone has been ringing nonstop.—
Johnny Dodd,
People.com,
25 Jan. 2025
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Because coverage is generally required for anyone seeking a mortgage, soaring rates in California could drive home values down, threatening yet another crisis, this one in real estate.—
Zoë Schlanger,
The Atlantic,
18 Jan. 2025
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That biomass comes from another world and has no place in this one.—
Stephen A. Pyne,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Jan. 2025
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Brown is an athletic guard who can guard ones and twos on the court and destroy those who are less athletic.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
19 Jan. 2025
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Has the number two been popping up frequently in your life, from seeing 2:22 on a clock to noticing repeating twos on invoices?—
Olivia Munson,
USA TODAY,
20 Dec. 2024
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The intrigue: Both Raleigh and Durham had similar listening habits, with nearly identical top fives — though Durham left a spot for Ye, the controversial rapper and producer formerly known as Kanye West, and Raleigh preferred Morgan Wallen.—
Zachery Eanes,
Axios,
5 Dec. 2024
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This chart week is just beginning, so Carpenter will claim her three top fives for the next few days.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
4 Sep. 2024
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Looking at hundreds of samples under a microscope is exhausting, especially considering only about 5% of the stool samples are positive.—
Dr. William Morice,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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A lot of times hundreds of thousands spent on marketing those restaurants as well.—
Briah Lumpkins,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Jan. 2025
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Fun is the creation of three entrepreneurs in their early twenties: Noah Tweedale, Alon Cohen, and Dylan Kerler.—
Joel Khalili,
WIRED,
15 Jan. 2025
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Almost all of them are from La Escuela Libre de Música from Puerto Rico: Julito, who’s the one who turned 19; the trombone and the trumpet player are [in their twenties].—
Julyssa Lopez,
Rolling Stone,
13 Jan. 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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Spending hundreds of millions of dollars and years of development to release a game that was shut down in two weeks is again, like nothing this industry has ever seen.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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Adams has shown a remarkable indifference toward early-childhood education, slicing hundreds of millions of dollars from the city’s 3-K and U.P.K. programs even as COVID-era federal stimulus funds for early-childhood programs were expiring.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Fifty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fifty. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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