forty-three
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 40 plus 3.
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a symbol for this number, as 43 or XLIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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“I find myself staring across the studio, for forty-three years now: her focus, always, in the moment, riveted upon her students.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026
The letter concluded: “A house is what you move into. A home is what you leave. This house was our home for forty-three years. Now it is yours.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2021
On Sunday, forty-three thousand people attended a rugby match in New Zealand, where there hasn’t been a corona case in weeks.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2020
Garcia, though only forty-three, had deteriorated into the title role, so that a song that had once seemed evocative, almost actorly—an imagined character conveyed by a man of prodigious gifts—now seemed downright real.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2019
In gematriya, ‘nozuf’ comes out one hundred forty-three, and ‘tzaddik’ comes out two hundred and four.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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