Fifty
adjective
Being five times ten.
She turned fifty last November.
Often appears as...
- fifty dollars
- fifty percent
noun
The number that comes after forty-nine.
Can you lend me a fifty, please?
Often appears as...
- fifty dollar bill
- group of fifty
adjective
Being five times ten.
She turned fifty last November.
Often appears as...
- fifty dollars
- fifty percent
noun
The number that comes after forty-nine.
Can you lend me a fifty, please?
Often appears as...
- fifty dollar bill
- group of fifty
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Pro Tip 1/3Age Milestone
Often used to mark significant birthdays, especially the 50th year.
My parents threw a huge party when they both turned fifty.
Pro Tip 2/3Percentage Usage
Used to describe half of something, often in sales or statistics.
Everything in the store is fifty percent off today.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Expression
'Fifty-fifty' means something is divided equally between two parties.
We went in on the gift fifty-fifty, so we both paid the same amount.
Pro Tip 1/3Age Milestone
Often used to mark significant birthdays, especially the 50th year.
My parents threw a huge party when they both turned fifty.
Pro Tip 2/3Percentage Usage
Used to describe half of something, often in sales or statistics.
Everything in the store is fifty percent off today.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Expression
'Fifty-fifty' means something is divided equally between two parties.
We went in on the gift fifty-fifty, so we both paid the same amount.
Pro Tip 1/3Age Milestone
Often used to mark significant birthdays, especially the 50th year.
My parents threw a huge party when they both turned fifty.
Pro Tip 2/3Percentage Usage
Used to describe half of something, often in sales or statistics.
Everything in the store is fifty percent off today.
Pro Tip 3/3Common Expression
'Fifty-fifty' means something is divided equally between two parties.
We went in on the gift fifty-fifty, so we both paid the same amount.
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The Sea Turtles of...
really interesting about these hatchlings is that a nest typically incubates for up to around fifty five days but this nest in particular is eighty four days old. That's a very long time and that's because this nest had been washed by water, it was inundated by a medic aid. And you're going to release them later on today, aren't you? Yes, we'll be releasing them shortly.
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How the coronavirus...
a country in which here fifty to sixty million migrant workers who are working in cities but live hours and hours away this is a country in which is you say most businesses conducted face to face it seems like you could have done you could have given people I would have said you know give them five days or
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The power of introverts...
have told you fifty others just like it all the times that I got the message that somehow my quiet and introverted style of being was not necessarily the right way to go and that I should be trying to pass as more of an extrovert and I always sense deep down that this was wrong and that introverts were
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Monster Fish PIPE National...
every angler aspires to cashing in igf a world record at some point in their life for Neil to have given up the chance of possibly getting the fifty pound test black marlin world record well it was it was a big thing to give up guy and bill shed pull up alongside Neil
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Martin Hanczyc: The line...
side, and living systems on the other side. So we go from, say, this beautiful and complex crystal as non-life, and this rather beautiful and complex cat on the other side. Over the last hundred and fifty years or so, science has kind of blurred this distinction
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Eric X. Li: A tale of...
Six hundred fifty million people were lifted out of poverty. Eighty percent of the entire world's poverty alleviation during that period happened in China. In other words, all the new and old democracies put together amounted to a mere fraction
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What is international...
is actually subsidizing us for every dollar that the developing world gets in aid ten dollars flow out into tax havens and international banks because of elicit dictator spending they hide their money Mexico lost fifty two billion
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How do we smell? - Rose...
It's the first sense you use when you're born. One out of every fifty of your genes is dedicated to it. It must be important, right? Okay, take a deep breath through your nose. It's your sense of smell,
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Best Tiger Cub Moments...
already bad enough are you ready kinda to help so these are gonna be the little canvases that we uh get their uh a little pores on i'm thinking fifty dollars for report
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How a Woman's Donated...
years last fifty years two different elements of society but most recently you made a decision to donate not just your life I
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The Sea Turtles of...
really interesting about these hatchlings is that a nest typically incubates for up to around fifty five days but this nest in particular is eighty four days old. That's a very long time and that's because this nest had been washed by water, it was inundated by a medic aid. And you're going to release them later on today, aren't you? Yes, we'll be releasing them shortly.
Video examples
How the coronavirus...
a country in which here fifty to sixty million migrant workers who are working in cities but live hours and hours away this is a country in which is you say most businesses conducted face to face it seems like you could have done you could have given people I would have said you know give them five days or
Video examples
The power of introverts...
have told you fifty others just like it all the times that I got the message that somehow my quiet and introverted style of being was not necessarily the right way to go and that I should be trying to pass as more of an extrovert and I always sense deep down that this was wrong and that introverts were
Video examples
Monster Fish PIPE National...
every angler aspires to cashing in igf a world record at some point in their life for Neil to have given up the chance of possibly getting the fifty pound test black marlin world record well it was it was a big thing to give up guy and bill shed pull up alongside Neil
Video examples
Martin Hanczyc: The line...
side, and living systems on the other side. So we go from, say, this beautiful and complex crystal as non-life, and this rather beautiful and complex cat on the other side. Over the last hundred and fifty years or so, science has kind of blurred this distinction
Video examples
Eric X. Li: A tale of...
Six hundred fifty million people were lifted out of poverty. Eighty percent of the entire world's poverty alleviation during that period happened in China. In other words, all the new and old democracies put together amounted to a mere fraction
Video examples
What is international...
is actually subsidizing us for every dollar that the developing world gets in aid ten dollars flow out into tax havens and international banks because of elicit dictator spending they hide their money Mexico lost fifty two billion
Video examples
How do we smell? - Rose...
It's the first sense you use when you're born. One out of every fifty of your genes is dedicated to it. It must be important, right? Okay, take a deep breath through your nose. It's your sense of smell,
Video examples
Best Tiger Cub Moments...
already bad enough are you ready kinda to help so these are gonna be the little canvases that we uh get their uh a little pores on i'm thinking fifty dollars for report
Video examples
How a Woman's Donated...
years last fifty years two different elements of society but most recently you made a decision to donate not just your life I
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I. M. Pei
American Architect
One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
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Sharon Stone
American Actress
You may be sick of what you did the first half of your life, but you don't have to just walk around and play golf or doing nothing. It's not like fifty is the new thirty. It's like fifty is the new chapter.
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Jesse Ball
American Poet
I think a book is often an account, or a series of accounts, that create a world that is sort of half of the world. There are references to a world, and then the reader supplies the other fifty percent.
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Bob Geldof
Irish Actor
I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.
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Marie Dressler
American Actress
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
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William Petersen
American Actor
One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.
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Confucius
Chinese Philosopher
If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.
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Red Cloud
Sioux Statesman
Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.
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Muhammad Ali
American Boxer
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
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Dennis Rodman
American Basketball Player
Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.
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I. M. Pei
American Architect
One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
Quote examples
Sharon Stone
American Actress
You may be sick of what you did the first half of your life, but you don't have to just walk around and play golf or doing nothing. It's not like fifty is the new thirty. It's like fifty is the new chapter.
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Jesse Ball
American Poet
I think a book is often an account, or a series of accounts, that create a world that is sort of half of the world. There are references to a world, and then the reader supplies the other fifty percent.
Quote examples
Bob Geldof
Irish Actor
I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.
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Marie Dressler
American Actress
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
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William Petersen
American Actor
One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.
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Confucius
Chinese Philosopher
If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.
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Red Cloud
Sioux Statesman
Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.
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Muhammad Ali
American Boxer
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
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Dennis Rodman
American Basketball Player
Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.
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