forty
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In our town, we’re told in the new LA28 announcement of the Cultural Olympiad: “It’s been forty years. Los Angeles is ready to do it again.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
In 1976, scientists realized that γ Cas emits X-rays about forty times stronger than similar stars.
From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026
“By the time the Scramble for Africa was over,” Martin Meredith tells us, the vagaries of geopolitical geometry had amalgamated “some 10,000 African polities . . . into forty European colonies and protectorates.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
"They took away valuables -- my radio, my phone, and forty head of livestock" from the village, he said, not daring to name those responsible.
From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026
“It’s three forty and look how dark it is.”
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
