forty-two
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 40 plus 2.
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a symbol for this number, as 42 or XLII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
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a game for two persons or two partnerships played with dominoes but based upon the rules for all fours.
adjective
Example Sentences
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“Tragedy: forty-two people, among those thirty women, eight children and four men, died when a boat capsized off the coast of Dakhla,” tweeted Helena Maleno of Caminando Fronteras, which monitors migratory flows.
From Reuters ● Aug. 6, 2021
His first clue is that six less than twice his number is between four and forty-two.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
The response to the commercial—which claimed that Poo-Pourri had better Amazon ratings than the iPhone 5, and which was eventually viewed more than forty-two million times—was matched by the response to the spray.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019
My mom had me when she was forty-two.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2019
First of all, I ended up having forty-two teeth.
From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
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