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- noun ordinal The
ordinal form of thenumber fifty-eight , describing a person or thing in position number 58 of a sequence. - noun fractional One of
fifty-eight equal parts of a whole.
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Examples
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Recently, in the fifty-eighth year of my life, I began seriously reading The US Constitution.
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Steele died of a heart attack, days shy of his fifty-eighth birthday.
THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007
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This would be her fifty-eighth summer in the world, and every one had been spent in Saraykeht.
A Shadow in Summer 2006
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But by the end of senior year her ranking had slipped considerably - to fifty-eighth.
Deal Breaker Coben, Harlan, 1962- 1995
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We are not told how Olga and Rebeca responded to Mr. Buckley, any more than we are told how all those "young, fresh, enthusiastic and resourceful" famous people responded to his ripostes, When it comes to the thoughts of others, Mr. Buckley exercises his droit de seigneur; but the seigneur himself seems distracted and disjointed, as he approaches his fifty-eighth birthday.
Happy Days Are Here Again Dunne, John Gregory 1983
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Not long since, she celebrated, on the same day, her fifty-eighth birthday and the fiftieth anniversary of her entrance to the Perkins Institute.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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Madrid, shows that the first chapter of the _Apologetica_ was originally the fifty-eighth of the _Historia General_.
Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt
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Nottingham will hold its six hundred and fifty-eighth annual Goose
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919 Various
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Ziethen, perhaps the best of all modern cavalry commanders, was in his fifty-eighth year when the Seven Years 'War began, and he served through it with eminent distinction, and most usefully to his sovereign.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various
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My theory, proceeding as it does from the light of Nature, can never, through its consistency, pass away or be changed; but in the fifty-eighth year after its millennium and a half it will then begin to flourish.
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir
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