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forty

adjective as in having 40 of something

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He describes these advances as "giving us leads we did not have forty years ago."

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"I won't be able to pay my rent, I will be in my forties and living back at home," he says.

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For one glorious afternoon, oil traders were essentially reverse-panhandling: “Please, sir, take this barrel of West Texas Intermediate. Here’s forty bucks. I insist.”

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Next comes another man in his forties covered in shrapnel wounds.

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A Riverside man in his forties fatally overdosed on the substance in March but the cause was not officially determined until this month, the Riverside University Health System said in a news release.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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