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Recent Examples of fiftyNow in his fifties, Koze is approaching an age when people might rightly describe him as avuncular.—Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025 The nineteen-forties and fifties were supposedly an era of liberal consensus, when both parties agreed on the virtues of the welfare state and a U.S.-led international order.—Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025 The 35-year-old bagged 12 centuries and 35 fifties in ODIs and had the highest score of 164 against New Zealand at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 2016.—Manasi Pathak, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025 This mine looks like something out of the fifties because it was started in 1955.—Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fifty
General Motors is recalling tens of thousands of Cadillac vehicles due to a video display issue that could increase the risk of crash, according to a notice posted this week by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
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Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
6 June 2025
There are tens of thousands of restaurants there specializing in the pairing.
These decisions suggest an effort to suppress all but the most overt nationalistic efforts from American artists, a fool’s errand given the outspoken nature of the creative community, and one that is not unfamiliar around the globe.
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Eric Kohn,
HollywoodReporter,
30 May 2025
Each of these is a live performance, and each one is a chance to iterate.
For over 50 years, psychologist John Gottman, along with his wife and fellow psychologist Julie Gottman, conducted hundreds of studies on relationships and communication.
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Kelley J. Brower,
CNBC,
5 June 2025
That’s a problem when leaders are tasked with navigating uncertainty, interpreting ambiguous data and making decisions that affect hundreds or thousands of lives.
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