fifty-three

[fif-tee-three]

noun

1. a cardinal number, 50 plus 3.

2. a symbol for this number, as 53 or LIII.

3. a set of this many persons or things.

adjective

1. amounting to 53 in number.

Example Sentences

By the time the truth came out, Emmett had been dead for fifty-three years and the photographs taken of him in the casket made White America see the brutality it often ignored or denied.

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In June 2022, fifty-three migrants died in a sweltering tractor trailer in Texas in the deadliest migrant-trafficking incident on record in the United States.

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“One hundred fifty-three, the tag is inside,” they called out in relief.

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They were carrying locksmith tools, electronic surveillance equipment, and, between them, fifty-three crisp, sequentially numbered hundred-dollar bills.

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He didn’t mention that he’d already made it to level fifty-three.

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