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- noun The
cardinal number immediately followingfifty-six and precedingfifty-eight .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being seven 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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He was still young by the standards of national politics, just fifty-seven, but he had been around a long time, a visible figure in American politics for more than twenty years.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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He was still young by the standards of national politics, just fifty-seven, but he had been around a long time, a visible figure in American politics for more than twenty years.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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He was fifty-seven at the time, well beyond life expectancy for the era; even so, Old Kinderhook went on to become Much Older Kinderhook, living to age seventy-nine.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 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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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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He was fifty-seven at the time, well beyond life expectancy for the era; even so, Old Kinderhook went on to become Much Older Kinderhook, living to age seventy-nine.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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He was still young by the standards of national politics, just fifty-seven, but he had been around a long time, a visible figure in American politics for more than twenty years.
The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010
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By contrast, fifty-seven percent of the 18-to-29-year-olds surveyed in Institute of Politics poll said they voted in the 2008 general election, either at a polling place or by absentee ballot.
Young voters not engaged in midterms, surveys show Felicia Sonmez 2010
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When a list of fifty-seven items appeared, Brenda scrolled through it.
Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011
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