forty-two
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 40 plus 2.
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a symbol for this number, as 42 or XLII.
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a set of this many persons or things.
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a game for two persons or two partnerships played with dominoes but based upon the rules for all fours.
adjective
Example Sentences
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“Tragedy: forty-two people, among those thirty women, eight children and four men, died when a boat capsized off the coast of Dakhla,” tweeted Helena Maleno of Caminando Fronteras, which monitors migratory flows.
From Reuters ● Aug. 6, 2021
His first clue is that six less than twice his number is between four and forty-two.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
Last year, it collected a hundred and twenty-two billion dollars from online retail sales, and another forty-two billion by helping other firms sell and ship their own goods.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2019
It was not a single structure but a thirty-four-million-dollar campus, built in the nineteen-eighties and spread across forty-two acres in a leafy, white neighborhood ten miles west of downtown Houston.
From The New Yorker ● May 20, 2019
At fifty-two, Macon Dead was as imposing a man as he had been at forty-two, when Milkman thought he was the biggest thing in the world.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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