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fifty-two

[ fif-tee-too ]

noun

  1. a cardinal number, 50 plus 2.
  2. a symbol for this number, as 52 or LII.
  3. a set of this many persons or things.


adjective

  1. amounting to 52 in number.

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Example Sentences

Fifty-two percent of Americans want us to mind our own business.

Fifty-two hours and 54 minutes after leaping from a rock wall in Havana, the 64-year-old marathon swimmer reached Key West.

I also love all the Gladiator monologues in “Seven Fifty-Two.”

Fifty-two percent were harassed in person, and 36 percent reported having been harassed online.

One hundred and fifty-two dead border crossers have turned up in the office since January.

The guerrilla loss he reported at fifty-two left dead on the field and one hundred and twenty-five wounded.

Near this place a piece of native copper was found, weighing upwards of fifty-two arobas.

At the same time the resolutions were carried by a majority of eighty-six against fifty-two.

Newport contained forty-six hundred and forty souls, Providence thirty-four hundred and fifty-two.

This is the commencement of the rapids, which continue for about a mile, the water falling in this distance about fifty-two feet.

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