fifty-two
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 50 plus 2.
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a symbol for this number, as 52 or LII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
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One hundred and fifty-two different Russian accounts produced material about her.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2022
“From start to finish, it took fifty-two years to complete the Foothill Freeway — the longest timeframe in the Southland’s freeway system,” Haddad wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
Native Alaskans, it is said, see many variations of what we call white, and one website has listed fifty-two variations of the color, from “Abbey White” and “Abstract White” to “Whitest White” and “Whitewash.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 21, 2022
At the age of fifty-two, Johnson was appointed to one of Britain’s great offices of state.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 13, 2019
“That way it’ll be fifty-two fifty less a month.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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