fourth
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The Rams selected Hunter in the fourth round of the 2025 draft, envisioning the former Auburn standout as a breakaway threat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Work began in 2015 but ground to a halt just a year later after North Korea's fourth nuclear test.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
The company also gave guidance for the fourth quarter that topped Wall Street’s expectations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
It marks the lowest growth since its fourth quarter of the financial year 2020 — which covered the three months ended January 31, 2020 — when sales increased by 1.9%.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
“That one’s only a minor Chinese princess from the fourth century,” Mr. Hodge said, keeping his arm steady.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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The Jack Berrys, the Bob Pauls, the Hunt brothers, the Lykes brothers, all of them with juniors or thirds or fourths.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
At meets, Mara racked up prize ribbons: lots of third-places, fourths, fifths, and sixths, the occasional second, the very rare first.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2024
"The amount of people with neuropathy in this study, particularly undiagnosed neuropathy, was extraordinarily high with almost three fourths of the study population," Elafros said.
From Science Daily ● May 8, 2024
Trip jacket selection is an art and a science, best done elegantly, with attention paid to form, function, aesthetics and viability — as a pillow when folded into fourths or eighths on a long-haul flight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2024
She bought some deep-brown wool and three- fourths of a yard of matching velvet.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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