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
Aflalo, who’s now forty-two, once told the Times that she wanted to combine “altruism and narcissism.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 1, 2019
They found, too, that only thirty three per cent of children born to immigrant parents are born to single mothers, compared to forty-two per cent of children born to Americans.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 21, 2019
But I didn’t even chase him down because we were ahead by forty-two points.
From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
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