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- noun The
cardinal number immediately followingfifty and precedingfifty-two .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being one more than fifty
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Examples
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I’ll mind my manners and call fifty-one weeks from today and we’ll set this up for next year, he said.
The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010
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His decision was appealed, and the appeal was voted down, fifty-one to forty-two.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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His decision was appealed, and the appeal was voted down, fifty-one to forty-two.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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I felt the filibuster was allowing an embittered minority to hold the country back from correcting long-standing injustices, and at first I supported a radical reform—cloture with fifty-one votes.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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His decision was appealed, and the appeal was voted down, fifty-one to forty-two.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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I felt the filibuster was allowing an embittered minority to hold the country back from correcting long-standing injustices, and at first I supported a radical reform—cloture with fifty-one votes.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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I felt the filibuster was allowing an embittered minority to hold the country back from correcting long-standing injustices, and at first I supported a radical reform—cloture with fifty-one votes.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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One-hundred and fifty-one and his neocortex might explode.
Why I Defriend the Old-Fashioned Way Joe Queenan 2011
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Eighteen of them died, fifty-one were wounded, and seventeen were missing in action or captured by the Nazis.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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There were fifty-one American drone strikes in Pakistan in 2009 alone under Obama, compared to forty-five in the entire eight years of the Bush administration.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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