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forty-five

American  
[fawr-tee-fahyv] / ˈfɔr tiˈfaɪv /

noun

  1. a cardinal number, 40 plus 5.

  2. a symbol for this number, as 45 or XLV.

  3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

  1. amounting to 45 in number.

forty-five 1 British  

noun

  1. a gramophone record played at 45 revolutions per minute

  2. a pistol having .45 calibre

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Forty-Five 2 British  

noun

  1. history another name for Jacobite Rebellion

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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

He was in the middle of one of his deals, counting to forty-five this time, when the bus stopped hard for a red light.

From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers

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