forty-nine
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 40 plus 9.
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a symbol for this number, as 49 or XLIX.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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The only exception is Nebraska, which has a unicameral state senate of forty-nine members.
From Textbooks ● Jul. 28, 2021
By the end of the 2020 election cycle, 800,000 new voters had registered in the state, forty-nine percent of whom were people of color.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2021
“Southwest thirteen eighty, we’re one hundred and forty-nine souls on board,” Shults said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2019
They certainly need it: as Cicilline pointed out, from 2006 to 2017 advertising revenue in the newspaper industry plummeted from forty-nine billion dollars to $15.6 billion.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 14, 2019
She had counted forty-nine flares when she thought she heard movement at the bottom of the tree.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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