fifty-three
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 50 plus 3.
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a symbol for this number, as 53 or LIII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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“One hundred fifty-three, the tag is inside,” they called out in relief.
From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2022
“When I found out that Kanye was buying the ranch, I did a little research, and I was surprised. Just a few years ago, he was fifty-three million in debt.”
From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2019
Porter, who is fifty-three, is a so-called serial entrepreneur, who previously had sold a mobile-gaming company for nearly two hundred million dollars, and before that served as the first president of Teach for America.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 19, 2019
A former high-school and college point guard, Burke, who is fifty-three, has been studying the intricacies and evolution of basketball for decades.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 13, 2019
He’d spent fifty-three years searching, tracking down every St. Anthony’s suitcase ever made, and it wasn’t there.
From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff
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