fifty-fourth
Americanadjective
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next after the fifty-third; being the ordinal number for 54.
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being one of 54 equal parts.
noun
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a fifty-fourth part, especially of one (1/54).
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the fifty-fourth member of a series.
Example Sentences
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The Defense Department on Wednesday announced the fifty-fourth transfer of U.S. weapons to Ukraine since August 2021 under presidential drawdown authority.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 27, 2023
Of Georgia’s hundred and fifty-nine counties, Clay ranks a hundred and fifty-fourth in “health outcomes,” according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 9, 2018
This was the lowest reading in 22 months and below the index for the UK as a whole, but the report also showed an improving labour market picture for the fifty-fourth consecutive month.
From BBC ● May 25, 2015
The day I saw the Williams quote was the two hundred and fifty-fourth of a year in which, so far, sixteen had qualified as rainy.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2015
He caught a chill, which developed into pneumonia, which finished him off on 11 February 1650, just short of his fifty-fourth birthday.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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