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fifth

[fifth, fith] / fɪfθ, fɪθ /
ADJECTIVE
having five of something
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They also represent about one fifth of all living mammals and play important ecological roles around the world.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

On Tuesday, the company introduced a new model called GPT-6.1 Sol, which it said provided nearly as good performance as Astra for a fifth of the price.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

You talk to enough people, the fifth person who tells you they’d rather have a chatbot than a girlfriend, you think, Well, what kind of life are they setting themselves up for?

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

After ousting Bernd Leno, his efforts helped Arsenal finish fifth in 2021-22, improving on an eighth-placed finish the previous year.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Abel moved to Brooklyn and rented an art studio on the fifth floor of a downtown building, a little room with soot-stained walls and large windows looking out at a federal courthouse.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

The study found such collisions killed between 15% and 29% of a group each year, and was the main cause of recorded hedgehog deaths, amounting to about two fifths of the total.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

At meets, Mara racked up prize ribbons: lots of third-places, fourths, fifths, and sixths, the occasional second, the very rare first.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2024

Caucus members account for three fifths of the lower house and half of the senate seats.

From Reuters ● Sep. 27, 2023

The song has easy rhythms, said Glass, but it’s more challenging to sing because of the wider vocal range and the way the melody line leaps by fifths and octaves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

The main weakness of the Pythagorean system is that a series of pure perfect fifths will never take you to a note that is a pure octave above the note you started on.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones



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