fifty-one
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 50 plus 1.
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a symbol for this number, as 51 or LI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
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"It took us fifty-one days to clear the mines", he told the BBC.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
This is sometimes called an “observation period” and colloquially referred to as: “Someone has been fifty-one fiftied.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2021
Five hundred and fifty-one of them are serving less than a year for low-level offenses.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2020
According to ABC News, internal polls showed Joe Biden leading the President by fifty-five per cent to thirty-nine per cent in Pennsylvania, and by fifty-one per cent to forty-one per cent in Wisconsin.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 19, 2019
Three broad classes were created, with fifty-one subgroups.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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