Definitions
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- noun   The 
cardinal number immediately followingfifty-seven and precedingfifty-nine . 
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being eight more than fifty
 
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Examples
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Maybe the magic number should decline slowly over a month, but no further than fifty-eight or fifty-seven votes.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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It would in some ways make it easier to round up votes for cloture: You could tell a colleague that you had, say, fifty-eight votes and absolutely needed his or her vote to get to sixty.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Maybe the magic number should decline slowly over a month, but no further than fifty-eight or fifty-seven votes.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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It would in some ways make it easier to round up votes for cloture: You could tell a colleague that you had, say, fifty-eight votes and absolutely needed his or her vote to get to sixty.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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It would in some ways make it easier to round up votes for cloture: You could tell a colleague that you had, say, fifty-eight votes and absolutely needed his or her vote to get to sixty.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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The historian Elizabeth Pleck has found fifty-eight diaries and autobiographies of free white people who were born before 1850 that recount instances of physical punishment.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Maybe the magic number should decline slowly over a month, but no further than fifty-eight or fifty-seven votes.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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Normal distance between rig bottom and sea level was fifty-eight feet.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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Benkong, fifty-eight, was tall with a shaved head and light blue eyes.
The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011
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The Carter, fifty-eight years of age, had spent the last three nights without shelter or sleep, while the Carpenter, sixty-five years of age, had been out five nights.
 
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