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- noun ordinal The
ordinal form of thenumber forty-two , describing a person or thing in position number42 of a sequence. - noun fractional One of
forty-two equal parts of a whole.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective the ordinal number of forty-two in counting order
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Examples
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As his forty-second birthday approaches, his future appears empty.
S.J. Main: Latino Themed Movies Take the Spotlight at Sundance Film Festival: Mosquita y Mari S.J. Main 2012
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Google also argues, correctly, that deciding who should be first is the very essence of a good search engine, and the sites that are ranked second, or forty-second, are going to claim that they are victims of bias.
Eric K. Clemons: Does Google Deliberately Engage in Deceptive Practices? Maybe and Maybe Not Eric K. Clemons 2011
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There is no better place to be acrophobic and claustrophobic than in a glass elevator stuck on the forty-second floor.
Archive 2010-02-01 Ulysses 2010
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As his forty-second birthday approaches, his future appears empty.
S.J. Main: Latino Themed Movies Take the Spotlight at Sundance Film Festival: Mosquita y Mari S.J. Main 2012
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There is no better place to be acrophobic and claustrophobic than in a glass elevator stuck on the forty-second floor.
Overthoughts Ulysses 2010
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Google also argues, correctly, that deciding who should be first is the very essence of a good search engine, and the sites that are ranked second, or forty-second, are going to claim that they are victims of bias.
Eric K. Clemons: Does Google Deliberately Engage in Deceptive Practices? Maybe and Maybe Not Eric K. Clemons 2011
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On the forty-second floor, an owl awakens in time to know its own mortality.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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On the forty-second floor, an owl awakens in time to know its own mortality.
365 tomorrows » featured writer : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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I dedicate this number to you, change, the last man standing to defend the honor of the Bush administration and to stand up for Real America against the pitiful, decadent, rump of traitors who ran your government back into the Confederacy dare to libel the forty-second President.
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As his forty-second birthday approaches, his future appears empty.
S.J. Main: Latino Themed Movies Take the Spotlight at Sundance Film Festival: Mosquita y Mari S.J. Main 2012
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