fifty-first

[fif-tee-furst]

adjective

1. next after the fiftieth; being the ordinal number for 51.

2. being one of 51 equal parts.

noun

1. a fifty-first part, especially of one (1/51).

2. the fifty-first member of a series.

Example Sentences

I’ll never forget when I turned to the rear cover of the magazine’s fifty-first issue: There, I saw four photographs showing a new house under construction in the Hamptons region of Long Island, in the middle of winter.

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Robert Redford is the President; Vietnam is the fifty-first state.

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“In order for the district to become the fifty-first state, Congress needs to pass and the states need to ratify an amendment to the Constitution,” Jordan said.

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The shooting, the two hundred and fifty-first mass shooting in the United States this year, took place within hours of an even deadlier mass shooting, in El Paso, Texas.

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According to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit organization that tracks gun-related violence, the El Paso and Dayton shootings marked the two hundred and fiftieth and two hundred and fifty-first mass shootings of the year––a rate of more than one per day.

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