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The school also placed firth in overall math growth at 89.70% and third overall in English/language arts growth at 86.60%.
EStem Junior High School in East Village's math scores grew at a rate of 84.71%, ranking fourth among central Arkansas middle schools.—Lena Miano, arkansasonline.com, 2 Mar. 2025 For their firth album, McCaughey and Buck went to Chicago and recorded with Wilco as their backing ensemble.—Al Shipley, SPIN, 22 June 2024 The cast have been hard at work on the show's current firth season.—Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 30 Mar. 2021 On the distant horizon was a cluster of faint street lights, a small town hunkered on the far side of the firth.—Douglas Stuart, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020 Wide views across the Solway firth to Scotland provide a handy distraction.—The Economist, 4 Dec. 2019 Gray and harbor seals are a common sight in this firth, or estuary, where several major rivers meet the North Sea.—National Geographic, 16 Feb. 2017 Kevin Harvick was firth, followed by fellow Ford drivers Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Joey Logano.—Mark Long, The Seattle Times, 30 June 2017
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Old Norse fjǫrthr — more at ford
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