forty-four
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 40 plus 4.
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a symbol for this number, as 44 or XLIV.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
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Across 18 years, the vessel “logged more than a million miles, the equivalent of forty-four trips around the world.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2025
One hundred and forty-four migrants left the ship, but 35 men from Egypt, Pakistan and Bangladesh stayed on, and the captain was ordered to take them back to international waters, according to the Italian government.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2022
At forty-four thousand dollars a pound, it is the most expensive ingredient in the world of perfume.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2022
The remains of the Italian patriot, poet and scholar, Ugo Foscolo, were exhumed at Chiswick churchyard, England, after forty-four years of interment.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 1, 2021
Just when we considered ourselves fully prepared and were fixing to depart, lo and behold, we learned that the Pan American Airline would only allow forty-four pounds to be carried across the ocean.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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