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- noun ordinal The
ordinal form of thenumber fifty-one , describing a person or thing in position number51 of a sequence. - noun fractional One of
fifty-one equal parts of a whole.
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Examples
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Could this be the fifty-first contemporary political ideology?
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Could this be the fifty-first contemporary political ideology?
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Did Rilke know that he would die in his fifty-first year?
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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With the news that Gary McKinnon has lost his extradition appeal, this just further confirms that the UK has now become the fifty-first USA state.
A damming day for British democracy… « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings… 2009
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Did Rilke know that he would die in his fifty-first year?
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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Did Rilke know that he would die in his fifty-first year?
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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In testimony whereof, the said Lewis Cass, James B. Ray, and John Tipton, commissioners as aforesaid, and the chiefs and warriors of the said Potawatamie tribe have hereunto set their hands, at the Wabash, on the sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, and of the independence of the United States the fifty-first.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Error in Many Versions of the United States Constitution 2010
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Did Rilke know that he would die in his fifty-first year?
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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It is about time we stop treating Israel as the fifty-first state.
Israeli Amb.: Palestinians need to come to negotiating table 2010
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With the news that Gary McKinnon has lost his extradition appeal, this just further confirms that the UK has now become the fifty-first USA state.
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