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fifty

[fif-tee] / ˈfɪf ti /
ADJECTIVE
having 50 of something
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“About fifty people came and talked to me, and bought copies ‘In the Country of Women,’ my memoir published by Catapult, and ‘Sacrament,’ my latest novel, published by Counterpoint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Abdullah Shafique: The only Pakistan batter to reach fifty or emerge with any crumb of credit after 61 in the first innings.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

To investigate this connection, the team studied a large multicenter group consisting of fifty patients and one hundred brain hemispheres.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

Around fifty miners have already taken part, and all of them have received job offers.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

“Oh, I don’t think it’ll cost over fifty cents,” the mailman said.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Matt Renshaw, Cameron Green and Josh Inglis, three of the junior members of this side, instead made fifties and put their side in the ascendancy.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The man was in his fifties when he was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment caused by Alzheimer's disease.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

A surfer in his fifties was rushed to hospital on Monday after being bitten by a shark in Western Australia, the state government and local ambulance service said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

"We stayed to guard our soil," her daughter Najat al-Nour, a Quran professor in her fifties who lifted her chin high to admonish those who left.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

Suddenly, for the first time since the Collier’s article in the fifties, the press was very interested in the woman behind those cells.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot


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