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forty-five
forty-fivenouna cardinal number, 40 plus 5.
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Forty-Five
forty-five
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 40 plus 5.
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a symbol for this number, as 45 or XLV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
noun
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a gramophone record played at 45 revolutions per minute
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a pistol having .45 calibre
noun
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"One hundred and forty-five endless days and nights of yearning for our loved ones," Ronen Neutra said, addressing the crowd.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2024
Yes, you read that right: forty-five different health problems all exacerbated by or correlated with eating that sweet white powder.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2023
And Hentoff got The New Yorker to devote a whole forty-five pages of print to Marie, and later Hentoff expanded those pages into a full biography.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 6, 2023
In an interview for a documentary on him that has yet to be released, Belzer recalled once taking an hour and forty-five minutes to bring up the next comic.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
Everything that makes up this tiny town that’s forty-five minutes from a big city and four hours away from an incredible island.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
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"It's exciting for us when we're making music to hear something that we possibly haven't heard before," they explained to The Forty-Five.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023
A number of smaller players also made the list, like Three Forty-Five Spectrum, which you can view on Light Reading’s site.
From The Verge ● Jan. 15, 2022
The result is a most enjoyable pot pourri of Roman mythology and eighteenth century social customs, combined with some of the patriotism left over from Fielding's anti-Jacobinism during the Forty-Five.
From The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love by Fielding, Henry
In the feudal days of Japan, so recently past, the position of the samurai was exactly the same as the clansmen of a Highland chief, say at the time of the "Forty-Five."
From Peeps at Many Lands: Japan by Finnemore, John
The Marshal d'Aumont, D'O, and Lognac, the Captain of the Forty-Five Guardsmen, bowed respectful assent.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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