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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fifty
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Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, tens of thousands of large bugs have descended on Great Smoky Mountains National Park along the North Carolina-Tennessee border, according to the National Park Service.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
25 May 2025
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Scores of other pending lawsuits represent potentially tens of millions more in liability exposure.—
Libor Jany,
Los Angeles Times,
25 May 2025
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No one was exactly eager to hop back into the weight room, meeting room and practice field when the offseason program began that April.—
Matt Barrows,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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No one is bigger than anyone else in the dressing room.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
30 May 2025
Noun
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Sometimes there are individual wins, sometimes a group wins, occasionally there are top twos.—
Barry Levitt,
Vulture,
12 May 2025
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People came in twos and threes to the intersection, all asking what had happened in English and Spanish.—
Caroline Kubzansky,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 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 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
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Rashad Shabazz, a historical cultural geographer at Arizona State University, helped bring hundreds of signs, posters and artwork from the protests to Phoenix in 2024.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
25 May 2025
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On Thursday, the council approved a $14-billion annual budget that would cut police hiring in half, while sparing hundreds of other city workers from layoffs.—
David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2025
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At Nova, the survivors are young people still in their twenties, perhaps with a lifetime of trauma ahead of them.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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Charisma Carpenter, who portrayed cheerleader Cordelia Chase, has a son, Donovan, in his early twenties.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
20 May 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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Grid operators must also pay the renewable energy provider a downward dispatch fee that can cost thousands of dollars per megawatt per hour.—
Renny Vandewege,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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But government economists have for years calculated that such standards save Americans hundreds of dollars a year in lower water and power bills.—
Coral Davenport,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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“Fifty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fifty. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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