forty-third
Americanadjective
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next after the forty-second; being the ordinal number for 43.
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being one of 43 equal parts.
noun
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a forty-third part, especially of one (1/43).
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the forty-third member of a series.
Example Sentences
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You may also remember me serving as the forty-third President of the United States.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2015
Bush received Florida’s electoral votes and, with a total of 271 votes in the Electoral College to Gore’s 266, became the forty-third president of the United States.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
These towers, which rose from the twenty-ninth to the forty-third story, constituted from the beginning the hotel’s unique appeal to which the American journalist Ward Morehouse devoted an entire book.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2014
You need not hold any specific political opinion about the forty-third president of the United States to see how his words illustrate a fundamental strangeness of the “cult of optimism.”
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2012
Dies 1852, one month before his forty-third birthday.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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