forty-six
Americannoun
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a cardinal number, 40 plus 6.
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a symbol for this number, as 46 or XLVI.
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a set of this many persons or things.
adjective
Example Sentences
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Edward I called his first Parliament in 1275, and the body met forty-six times during his thirty-five-year reign.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
An additional forty-six cents will get you Omarosa Manigault Newman's "insider's account" of her short-lived tenure in that very White House.
From Salon • Oct. 25, 2020
“When the neighbor returned Sunday evening, the man met him outside. “I never made it to forty-six, but when you step inside your house, you’ll know your cat is no longer constipated.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2020
An NPR-“PBS NewsHour”-Marist survey that was released on Thursday found that forty-nine per cent of respondents supported impeachment, and forty-six per cent didn’t.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 28, 2019
That accidental discovery was the first of several developments that would allow two researchers from Spain and Sweden to discover that normal human cells have forty-six chromosomes.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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