fifty-four
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 50 plus 4.
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a symbol for this number, as 54 or LIV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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The Constitution does not require the Speaker to be a member of the House, although to date, all fifty-four Speakers have been.
From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021
Twice the difference of a number and ten is fifty-four.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 22, 2020
Labor economists refer to people aged twenty-five to fifty-four as “prime aged.”
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2019
In Dunn County, home to about forty-five thousand people, with a median household income of fifty-four thousand dollars, the new Democratic chair is the thirty-nine-year-old Bill Hogseth, who works for the Wisconsin Farmers Union.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 23, 2019
My final poster was covered with fifty-four of them.
From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea
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