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Recent Examples of fifty
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.
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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
Two weeks later, the Office of His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III released an official statement explaining that Dorje Chang and his wife, Yuhua Wang, also in her fifties, died together at a Las Vegas residence.
—Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
Meanwhile, the share of people getting married for the first time in their forties and fifties quadrupled between 1990 and 2019.
—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
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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
Two weeks later, the Office of His Holiness Dorje Chang Buddha III released an official statement explaining that Dorje Chang and his wife, Yuhua Wang, also in her fifties, died together at a Las Vegas residence.
—Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
Meanwhile, the share of people getting married for the first time in their forties and fifties quadrupled between 1990 and 2019.
—Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fifty
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Crews worked furiously and by Sunday morning power had been restored to parts of North Carolina and South Carolina where tens of thousands of customers lost electricity over the last few days, according to Duke Energy.SARA CLINE AND BEN FINLEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 13 Jan. 2025
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Multiple wildfires have ravaged the east and west sides of Los Angeles County, and many families have lost their homes–tens of thousands of residents near the Palisades and Eaton fires remain under evacuation orders.Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 13 Jan. 2025
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This one banned six other synthetic food dyes — including blue No. 1, green No. 3 and red No. 40 — from meals served in public schools.Allison Aubrey, NPR, 18 Jan. 2025
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Few pop culture mementos have illustrated this point with as much humor, and this one did it in under four minutes.The New York Times, New York Times, 18 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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People talk about the terrible twos, but she’s found her foothold in that kind of behavior, and there’s just no reasoning with her.Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 21 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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As the hundreds of videos on TikTok and Instagram prove, the decision to add bangs to a look is not one that is taken lightly, but there are times that warrant the risky change, and her engagement to actor Tom Holland is definitely one of them.Michel Mejía, Glamour, 12 Jan. 2025
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Piper has gone through hundreds of different medical surgeries since she was attacked, in an incident orchestrated by her ex-boyfriend in 2008.Caroline Frost, Deadline, 12 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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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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Later, the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill authorized hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild airports, bridges and highways, billions more to build a network of electric vehicle chargers and more broadband Internet.Ed O'Keefe, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2025
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“Fifty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fifty. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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