forty-five
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Forty-five years old, tall and strikingly handsome, Sumner was the consummate New England intellectual: widely traveled, deeply versed in classics and the law, and staunchly committed to the cause of African-Americans.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
Forty-five Indian pilgrims have been killed after the bus they were travelling in caught fire in an accident near Medina in Saudi Arabia, the police commissioner of India's Hyderabad city has said.
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2025
Forty-five years after Paul Schrader immortalized Richard Gere as an “American Gigolo,” he’s cast him again as a rather run-of-the-mill American cad.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024
Forty-five minutes before he steps onto the court, Rafael Nadal must take a frigid shower.
From Salon • Aug. 6, 2024
“Eleven stories tall. Forty-five thousand tons of steel. And longer than four city blocks.”
From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis
