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fourth

[fawrth, fohrth] / fɔrθ, foʊrθ /


VERB
quarter
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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

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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