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  • noun The cardinal number immediately following fifty-two and preceding fifty-four.

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  • adjective being three more than fifty

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Examples

  • “That’s because it’s fifty-three, which is about what it is outside.”

    The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell 1994

  • “That’s because it’s fifty-three, which is about what it is outside.”

    The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell 1994

  • “That’s because it’s fifty-three, which is about what it is outside.”

    The Body Farm Patricia Cornwell 1994

  • He sued fifty-three defendants, among them then attorney general John Ashcroft, and asserted that his detention and treatment violated the United States Constitution.

    The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010

  • One hundred fifty-three national education, civil rights, religious, disability, parent and civic groups have signed the Joint Organizational Statement on No Child Left Behind.

    How to evaluate students: Look at their work Valerie Strauss 2010

  • And so it is not well for women, born south of fifty-three and reared gently, to knock loosely about the Northland, unless they be great of heart.

    CHAPTER 20 2010

  • Approximate time to start, one hour and fifty-three minutes.

    Saturday To-Do List raecarson 2009

  • For fifty-three of those years, he had been classified as an alien ineligible for citizenship.

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Faces of America: The Yamaguchi Story -- How an Immigrant Farmer Paved the Way for Success Jr. Henry Louis Gates 2010

  • “Mr. Glurk weighed seven hundred and fifty-three pounds.”

    Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011

  • “Mr. Glurk weighed seven hundred and fifty-three pounds.”

    Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011

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