fifty-nine
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 50 plus 9.
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a symbol for this number, as 59 or LIX.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Coastal islands and the tropical area around Lake Victoria, for example, receive upward of fifty-nine inches of rain per year.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
One hundred and fifty-nine years later, we're still celebrating it annually.
From Salon • Nov. 24, 2022
Despite his secretive nature, Swartzwelder is a very popular figure among diehard "Simpsons" fans as he is credited with writing fifty-nine episodes of the comedy, more than any other single writer in the show’s history.
From Fox News • May 3, 2021
Perhaps because Honoré isn’t an American, he omits Satchel Paige, who pitched in the majors until he was fifty-nine.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2019
The complicated machinery inside my automaton can produce one hundred and fifty-eight different pictures, and it can write, letter by letter, an entire book, twenty-six thousand one hundred and fifty-nine words.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
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