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Recent Examples of fifty
However for Highland Park this path was started in part back in 2008, when Motion chose ten casks to take to the next level, to nurture and cajole into their fifties.
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Mark Littler, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
The people that sit around me are mainly blokes in their fifties and sixties.
—Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
My grandparents started with basset hounds in the fifties, and from there my parents have bred multiple different breeds.
—Savannah White, Glamour, 18 Feb. 2025
Picking up a beloved character in her fifties is a big task, particularly one with whom audiences fell in love in her mid-thirties.
—Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
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Mark Littler, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
The people that sit around me are mainly blokes in their fifties and sixties.
—Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
My grandparents started with basset hounds in the fifties, and from there my parents have bred multiple different breeds.
—Savannah White, Glamour, 18 Feb. 2025
Picking up a beloved character in her fifties is a big task, particularly one with whom audiences fell in love in her mid-thirties.
—Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fifty
Noun
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Globally, the superhero sequel, which cost $180 million to make and tens of millions more to market, has earned $341.8 million.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
2 Mar. 2025
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These simple fees have been earning it tens of millions of dollars a week.—
Axios,
Axios,
1 Mar. 2025
Noun
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If Lamoriello had his way, no one would have been traded this week, and the Islanders would have brought the entire gang back for another go in 2025-26.—
Arthur Staple,
The Athletic,
8 Mar. 2025
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No one will deny that, but this is MMA and each round starts standing, which gives Pereira a distinct advantage in this matchup.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The tactile quality of the characters was modeled after stop-motion, including animating mostly on twos (one image for every two frames) for rough movement.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
31 Jan. 2025
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The Clippers made a habit of hitting tough shots from tricky angles, going 8-for-11 on non-paint twos in the first half (the league average on those shots: 40.9%).—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
23 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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As of publication, well over half of the fundraisers are at least halfway funded, and hundreds of thousands of dollars have been raised for crew in need.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
1 Mar. 2025
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Trump is also calling for widespread layoffs of federal workers, which could cause hundreds of thousands of job losses and potentially lift the unemployment rate.—
Christopher Rugaber and Anne D’Innocenzio,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Mar. 2025
Noun
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And that mandate involved putting lots and lots of people in their twenties on the island.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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In my early twenties, adrift in Sydney, something magic happened.—
Alex Levy,
IndieWire,
4 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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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Multiplied across millions of borrowers, that kind of increase represents billions of dollars extra each month that households would have to divert to student loans instead of other needs or savings.—
Shahar Ziv,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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There is also growing uncertainty about the nation’s trillions of dollars in student loans and whether the government will stay in the business of lending money to students directly.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Fifty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fifty. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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